Our Government’s Inability (or desire) to Protect Us From Mexican Drug & Gang Violence

Dear Obama: How much violence spilling over from Mexico into the US is too much?

Yesterday, a “massive gun battle” between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the U.S. border in Arizona resulted in 21 people dead and at least six others wounded.

Now, you might say, this happened in Mexico — why should we care about what goes on in Mexico? That’s Mexico’s problem, let them deal with it. Except of course that the drug- and gang-related violence has been trickling rushing like water over Niagra Falls into the United States for quite some time.

My question to you Open Borders, pro-illegal immigrant, anti-Arizona’s right to protect themselves from the cancer that is illegal immigration fans:

If that gun battle had continued on, and moved over onto the US side of the border, what could we (and by we, I mean “our government”) done to have prevented it? What’s to stop the drug cartels, who don’t recognize the border or obey the law, from coming into the US and killing US citizens?

The answer, right now, is nothing. It’s already happening.

Which is why we need tens of thousands of US National Guard troops (armed to the teeth with overwhelming fire power) until we get a fence built on the border, and then leave a bunch of those same troops on guard at the border with explicit and unambiguous orders to shoot any and everybody attempting to come over, under, or around that fence.

Governor Brewer Responds to Obama’s Illegal Immigrant Pandering Speech

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) told reporters on Thursday that Obama’s immigration reform speech offered no solutions to the problem, instead calling it a “helpless speech.”

“Where’s the action?” Brewer asked. “He described perfectly my opinion of the complete failure of the federal government, something that has been failing the people of America for a decade or more.”

She added, “The bottom line is that we are a nation of laws and they have to be complied with. And, if they are not, we will fall. We have chaos in Mexico, and we are beginning to experience the same kind of chaos in Arizona.”

She said, “The system is broken, the border is broken. We all know what we need… People in Arizona have made it very, very clear. Let’s talk about the problem that is at hand. Let’s secure the border.”

Though, frankly, I believe that if Obama were to send significant (or any) US troops to the Arizona-Mexico border, it would be to prevent Arizona from enforcing SB 1070, rather than to do anything to harm the large Democrat voting bloc of illegal immigrants.