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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (258866)7/6/2010 9:43:53 PM
From: joseffyRead Replies (3) of 306849
 
Arizona Sheriff Gets Death Threats

July 06, 2010
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Pinal County, AZ Sheriff Paul Babeu has been on the front lines to secure the U.S.-Mexico border against drug cartels and human smugglers, and now is the target of death threats as reported by KSAZ:

Outside law enforcements have been brought in to investigate the threats and have found them credible. Chief Deputy Steve Henry said some of the threats come from the Mexican mafia and drug cartel members. Sheriff Babeu declined personal security detail. He decided not to request funding for security detail at this time, because the county resources are already stretched.

The President insists "the border is as safe as it ever has been" but even if it's not Obama says there's nothing he can do about it anyhow as reported by Jordy Yager for The Hill: "our borders are just too vast for us to be able to solve the problem." If President Obama cannot secure his own homeland against pervasive organized crime -- the drug cartels have supply lines, distribution networks and operational cells in more than 230 cities throughout the United States, and they control the flow of illegal immigration along the same smuggling routes -- then his overseas effort in Afghanistan is doomed where the challenges are far greater and the enemy is far more fierce. The inability of the United States to win in Afghanistan conclusively is demonstrated by our failure to win the more important battle to secure our own border.

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