US Citizens Rally in Support of AZ Immigration Law

On Sunday more then 400 gun toting US Citizens converged on a remote ranch on the Arizona Mexico border to show support for Arizona’s immigration law prop 1076. In attendance at the rally were no less then a dozen conservative speakers many of whom are candidates running for office in the extremely crowded upcoming Republican primary.One of the ten Republicans Politicians in attendance was former State Senator Pam Gorman, who is vying for the open congressional seat in northern Phoenix. In a show of solidarity with the crowd of over 400, gun toting citizens Gorman carried a semiautomatic handgun in a holster slung over her shoulder. While addressing the crowd Gorman demanded that Congress and our President Barack Obama devote more resources to secure our southern borders.

Even with last Fridays signing of a bill that provides another six hundred million dollars in funding for the US Border Patrol Department who is in charge of patrolling our borders, she Gorman and many other US Citizens and Politicians a like feel that the current administration policies are wholly inadequate. And although we at Americans Under Siege do not align ourselves with any political party, we whole heartedly agree with Gorman on this particular point.

At a time when Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has openly encouraged Citizens of Mexico to enter the United States illegally we must be overly protective of our southern borders to ensure that our citizens are kept safe and the flow of illegal drugs from Mexico into the US is kept to a minimum. We realize that it is virtually impossible to stop illegal entry into the US completely, but the current administration can and should do a great deal more then they are now.

There is a total of 1,969 miles of border between the United States and Mexico and the US Border Patrol has a total of 20,200 agents that are manning the border crossings and patrolling in the field. That means there are roughly 528 Border Patrol agents per mile of border, sounds like a respectable number right? However, this number doesn't take into consideration the number of agents needed to man the 42 legal border crossing points and their secondary inspection areas. These numbers also doesn't take into consideration the border patrol agents the are patrolling our Northern borders of the US and Canada either.

I recently read an article published by NBC News field notes that said “ illegal entry into the United States along the entire length of our southwest border has declined over the past year due to the poor economy in the US.

Apprehensions fell to 540.865 in 2009 from 705,005 in 2008. However drug trafficking activities have continued to rise.” It is these drug trafficking activities that represent the greatest danger to both Border Patrol agents and US citizens. We're giving you all this background information about the activities on our southern border because it supports the need for Arizona's Immigration law. Thinking logically it would also seem to support the need for the same types of laws in both California and Texas also.

There are many liberals that are screaming as loud as they can that Arizona's law is a violation of these immigrants Constitutional rights but we beg to differ with them, people that enter this country illegally are afforded no rights under the US Constitution. The US Constitution pertains to Citizens of this country, not people that have crossed our borders illegally.

For the time being we will have to wait and see how this all plays out in the courts, because last month a Federal Judge delayed the most contentious provisions of Arizona's law, including a section that would require police officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws if the have “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in this country illegally.

Supports of the law are quick to say that they don’t appose people from Mexico entering this country legally. However, if the law is upheld in Arizona's courts supporters say the will begin to apply pressure to the states governments of California and Texas to adopt similar laws in those states to try to curb the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into the the United States through our southern border.