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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (258866)	7/6/2010 9:43:53 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

Arizona Sheriff Gets Death Threats July 06, 2010 bitterqueen.typepad.com 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.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (258866)	7/6/2010 11:11:06 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Tasing Arizona Investors Business Daily July 6, 2010 investors.com When the Justice Department sued Arizona Tuesday for the grievous crime of protecting its border, it did more than just signal a softer policy on immigration. It also put our national security at risk. 'A state may not establish its own immigration policy or enforce state laws in a manner that interferes with the federal immigration laws," the U.S. wrote in its complaint. But Arizona isn't "interfering" at all. It's just doing what should be Uncle Sam's job — protecting our border. Arizona should get a presidential commendation, not a lawsuit. It's bad enough that bankrupt U.S. states have found their budgets hemorrhaging red ink due to the costs associated with runaway illegal immigration, as a number of recent reports show. That in itself is enough for us to limit the illegal flood. But there's a greater, often overlooked reason: terrorism. IBD has reported a number of times on the efforts of Islamic terrorists to infiltrate the U.S. through its porous southern (and occasionally northern) border. The U.S. has become an easy target. Just this week, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported that Mexico's security forces had broken up an attempt by Hezbollah operative Jameel Nasr to set up a terrorist network in South America, using Mexican nationals with family ties to Lebanon to do the job. Nasr's bust came after Rep. Sue Myrick, a North Carolina Republican, warned in June that Hezbollah and Iran were increasing their operations in the region — including working with drug cartels who take advantage of lax border controls to smuggle drugs, people and terrorists into our country. This problem has been brewing for years. Since its founding in 1982, Iran-backed Hezbollah has been involved in literally hundreds of terrorist attacks, including the 1983 truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 243 troops. In 2002, not long after 9/11, here's what Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage had to say: "Hezbollah may be the A-team of terrorists, and maybe al-Qaida is actually the B-team." Writing in FrontPage Magazine in 2006, Lt. Col. Joseph Myers and Patrick Poole called attention to the growing terrorist networks that threaten the U.S.: "In the past 20 years Hezbollah has created an extensive web of operations within the United States itself — a sophisticated terror network better established here than any other terrorist organization in the world." In 2006, former FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that U.S. agents had broken up a Hezbollah smuggling ring that had actually infiltrated the U.S. It got little press at the time. But as Vice President Joe Biden might say slightly differently, "It's a big deal."