The federal government is now telling American citizens to stay out of three southern Arizona counties. It is too dangerous because of armed smugglers from Mexico.
Two men shot earlier this week could be the result of the ongoing battle between Mexican drug cartels now spilling over deep into Arizona, officials say.
Pinal County investigators say an area known as the smuggling corridor now stretches from Mexico’s border to metro Phoenix.
The area, once an area for family hiking and off road vehicles has government signs warning residents of the drug and human smugglers.
Night vision cameras have photographed cartel members with military arms delivering drugs to vehicles along Highway 8.
“We are three counties deep. How is it that you see pictures like these, not American with semi and fully automatic rifles. How is that okay?” asked Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.
Babeu said he no longer has control over parts of his county.
“We are outgunned, we are out manned and we don’t have the resources here locally to fight this,” he said at a Friday news conference.
Five weeks ago Deputy Louie Puroll was ambushed and shot as he tracked six drug smugglers.
Sheriff Babeu said the ambush mirrored military tactics.
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Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu: Quite frankly I’m telling you as a sheriff that we don’t control that part of the county. My county is larger than the state of Connecticut and we need support from the federal government. It’s their job to secure the border and they haven’t done it. In fact President Obama suspended the construction of the fence.
FOX News reporter: Would you like to see some of the president’s outrage about the oil spill and some of the butt-kicking that he’s talked about doing applied there on the border as well?
Sheriff Paul Babeu: Even with that, you say one thing and then you’re out at a fundraiser in California and you don’t go to the funeral of the people who died in the explosion. You know its one thing to say something slick on television in a ten second soundbite but we need action. And, it’s shameful that we as the most powerful nation on earth can win wars and liberate countries throughout history yet we can’t even secure our own border.
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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Obama has disposal of the National Guard….why not have them secure the areas. One of the few legitimate purposes of fed gov is to protect the citizenry. That is something obama does not want to do. He would rather give the enemy help like the terrorists, and also the illegals.
And from last nighits speech about the oil spill, who would have guessed that obama hadn’t talked to the CEO of BP six weeks after the spill???? Amazing,….shocking.
It’s too dangerous for OUR citizens to be in OUR counties on the border? We need to get serious in Arizona, and I want the National Gaurd to go in guns and other things blazing. It’s time to put an end to this shit. WTF either get the military there and stop this invasion or tell the Gov of AZ to call up the militia (NG and Civilian). We don’t give our land to invaders.
We as the most powerful nation on earth can win wars and liberate countries throughout history yet we can’t even secure our own border.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.” – Cicero, 42 B.C.
I saw this article yesterday but don’t remember where. I think it may have been over at Scotty Starnes’s blog. Obama should be tarred and feathered along with the rest of his tribe and exported to Kenya. This is insanity at it’s best. Although if the Guard were deployed his ROE’s would probably no bullets in the chamber and don’t fire until fired upon first. Observe only if you don’t see any arms and do not engage but stand down if they have any women or children in the group.
Yes Governor Brewer should call up the guard and secure the border once and for all.
Hey, I thought armed drug runners penetrating American territory was a “national security problem” for liberals, something they could get tough on without looking like warmongers because nobody likes scummy drug dealers… well, Democrats, here’s your big chance and you’re blowing it miserably! Not overseas, here! American citizens can’t go someplace in their own country because of invading armed foreigners! Shame on you!
Time to call in the army. Close the border with mexico and kill any thing that tries to cross.
But of course pbo does not care because it is Arizona, which he thinks is inhuman. Call this revenge of b.o.
Any one ready to give up on the drug war? Like proabition, seems to cause more problems that it solves. Free will after all, personal responsibility.
Obama is TREASON 24/7/365, a RADICAL IDEOLOGUE 24/7/365, ANTI-AMERICAN 24/7/365, and LAWLESSNESS 24/7/365.
Impeach Obama
http://www.nmatv.com/categories/37/WND
http://www.www.nmatv.com/video/442/Barack-Obama-Elected-President
http://www.nmatv.com/video/2870/The-First-ILLEGAL-President–Barack-Hussein-Obama
My remark: Bob A, http://poedpatriot.blogspot.com/ , http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/ , and http://weaselzippers.us/ had the above story, as well.
My correction:
http://www.nmatv.com/video/442/Barack-Obama-Elected-President
It might be a good idea Anon to write something in your own words may give a little more credibility to your work, just a thought.
How can they seal off part of the country and let the mexicans take it over. We won this land fair and square I don’t give a good goddam what their text books say they lost the dam war. Arizona belongs to the United States.
In other words parts of Arizona are now open to illegals and closed to American citizens. Might just as well be part of Mexico—what a dumb whimp we have as a command-in-chief he really should be called the coward-in-chief!
Political correctness: a slow form of national suicide.