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> Illegals Pour Through Southern Arizona Ranch
>
> In Our Backyard -- If only McCain and Kennedy
> lived on ranches in southern Arizona
>
> By Leo W. Banks
> 6-25-6
>
>
> TUCSON --I know how to kill the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill and the
> illusions that inspire it. We need every citizen to spend a day at John
> and Pat King's Anvil Ranch in southern Arizona. The experience would
> create an overnight revolution in America's view of this domestic
> crisis.
>
> The Kings live every day with barking dogs, vandalism, guns at their
> bedside, trash on their land, and most tragically, human remains. The
> bodies of seven illegals were found on the 50,000-acre Anvil last year.
>
> "Can you imagine dying of heat prostration out there?" says Pat King, a
> 62-year-old former nurse. "It has got to be the most awful thing. I
> wish the two countries would get together and stop this. In this whole
> 50-mile area, there is no law. It's a frontier."
>
> I visited the Anvil a week ago Sunday. The night before, the Minutemen
> had wrapped up a month-long watch at the ranch, and the nationwide
> demonstrations to demand rights for illegal immigrants would begin the
> next morning.
>
> I've visited many Arizona ranches, and it always surprises me how
> quickly I can travel from Tucson to a combat zone. It takes 50 minutes
> to reach Anvil's headquarters in heavily-crossed Altar Valley, located
> to the southwest of the city. Even with that proximity, most people in
> Tucson-to say nothing of Maine or Washington, D.C.-live in blissful
> ignorance of the worsening situation here.
>
> When Pat discusses the problem with friends, they say, "Don't you think
> you're exaggerating?" No one would ask that if they saw the 40 bicycles
> stacked against one of the Anvil's out-buildings. They're the favored
> means of transportation for drug smugglers, who pack their cargo onto
> saddlebags and pedal across our border, then abandon the bikes.
>
> As for vandalism, Pat describes what they experience today as "wanton,"
> -- water troughs filled with garbage, pipes cut, valves hammered to
> pieces. She jokes that they're thinking of putting a tetherball by the
> troughs to occupy the illegals so they aren't so destructive.
>
> "You have to understand, we're under siege here," she says. "Every day
> my son and husband check water and fences and redo the damage they've
> done. Not to get on with our work, but to undo the damage. Every. Day."
>
> Micaela McGibbon, Pat's daughter, took me on a ranch tour, and in one
> mile we crossed 30 smuggling trails. In a wash, we inspected
> sophisticated brush huts in which illegals rest during trips north.
>
> But this nightmare comes right to the Kings' doorstep. Imagine living
> under permanent stakeout. The Kings do. They removed mesquite trees
> from around their house because illegals would hide underneath them and
> wait for the house to empty.
>
> For nine years, the family has been unable to leave home unless someone
> stays to guard against burglars. They celebrate Christmas in shifts. On
> Christmas Eve, Pat's son and daughter-in-law go to Tucson to visit
> family, and when they return John and Pat go on Christmas morning.
>
> Micaela can no longer do chores unless accompanied by her father or a
> brother, and taking her 4-year-old daughter out on horseback is
> forbidden. "We can't go anywhere without an escort," Micaela says.
> The Kings have complained to politicians and law enforcement for years.
> "They talk this rule of law stuff, but it doesn't mean a thing," Pat
> says. "When you realize nothing's going to happen, you have to do
> self-protection."
>
> During their April watch, Minutemen spotted 1,501 illegals on the
> Anvil, and of these the Border Patrol arrested 500. But it turned into
> a circus. ACLU volunteers showed up every day to monitor and harass the
> Minutemen, at times sounding car horns and flashing lights to alert the
> illegals that the Border Patrol was coming. This is the border crisis
> in microcosm --confused Americans rush to defend lawbreakers while
> ignoring, even demonizing, law-abiding citizens who suffer daily
> affronts to basic liberties on land their family has tended for 115
> years.
>
> The Anvil's location, 38 miles north of the border, means that by the
> time illegals arrive there, they've been walking for days and are
> sometimes in desperate shape.
>
> Between May and August last year, cowboy Jason Cathcart found four sets
> of human remains. He came to dread spotting what looked like little
> white balls in the distance. Those "balls" turned out to be human
> skulls.
>
> In March, a man arrived at the Anvil's front gate so distraught that he
> ran into the yard and tried to impale himself on a pitchfork. Later he
> took up a bale hook and used the pointed end to slash his throat. "This
> is what life is like in the Altar Valley," says Pat.
>
> Certainly the McCain-Kennedy bill will do nothing to change life here.
> Pat likens the bill, with its plan for amnesty, a guest- worker
> program, and negligible enforcement, to swatting flies in your house
> with the doors and windows wide open.
>
> Ask yourself: Would the Altar Valley be a war zone if McCain lived
> here? If Kennedy's Hyannisport compound were magically transplanted to
> southern Arizona, how long do you think it'd be before he rewrote his
> bill? The first time Kennedy saw 30 illegals dashing across his
> property, he'd trip over his Guatemalan lawn guy rushing to the Senate
> floor to demand enforcement.
>
> That's one of the American tragedies at play here, the abandonment of
> ordinary citizens by our country's elites, and most strikingly, the
> abandonment of the very laws they themselves have written.
>
> The resulting invasion has driven legal Arizona residents from their
> land, including John King's aunt. She lived south of the Anvil for more
> than 40 years, but sold out rather than keep fighting a battle the
> federal government has no intention of winning.
>
> Pat thinks the street demonstrators -- she calls them cowards -- need
> to show their bravery by returning to Mexico and changing that country,
> not ours. "We did that with the Boston Tea Party," she says. "We were
> taxed without representation and we rose up and changed it. I think the
> students in the streets and these young ACLU individuals here are being
> used. When you talk to them you realize it's all emotion. There's no
> logic. They don't have a clue."
>
> When it comes to what's really happening on our southern border,
> neither does the rest of the country. But that would change if every
> American spent a day at the Anvil.
>
> Leo W. Banks is a writer in Tucson
>
> Source: http://www.rense.com/general72/iull.htm
>
And the worthless President and the assorted bloats (mostly Democrats) in
the US Senate want more immigrants. The sorry *******s should be put before
Citizens Tribunals on charges of treason.

Hank

http://www.fairus.org// Federated Americans for Immigration Reforms