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We commonly get to the airport for our flight a couple of hours early. Long lines indicate that we have found the right boarding gate. We walk through a metal detector. Travel bags are scanned and now and then opened and checked. Our belts and shoes are many times the subject of much scrutiny and review. Good luck to our well-prepared travel plan if we are unfortunate sufficient to have the same name as someone on the country’s no-fly list. We have been told by the government that this time-consuming routine is necessary for homeland security and to insure the safety of the public. In truth, this tedious procedure just to enter an airplane makes us feel that, in spite of all the inconvenience, at least we are doing our own little part to aid the government in it is necessary occupation of protecting our national security. This is incisively why the recent incident along the United States border with Mexico, and the State Department’s subsequent incoherent response, ought to leave each American citizen who values the importance of homeland security frustrated, furious, and sentiment insecure. Consider that a Tucson Border Patrol agent not long ago encountered four Mexican soldiers wearing desert camouflage and carrying weapons as he patrolled a border road in the Tohono O’Odham nation southwest of Tucson. The agent was kept by the Mexican military at gunpoint for four minutes as he spoke to them in English and Spanish before he conservatively reached for the radio in his back pocket in order to call for help. The Mexican soldiers took flight back all over the border, into Mexico, only when other agents were seen in the distance responding to his call for help. According to the Department of State this incident was just an ominous accident. Here is the statement from the Department of State’s spokesman. “Our understanding is that this encounter stemmed from a momentary misunderstanding as to the precise emplacement of the U.S.-Mexican border.” However, in spite of that dubious statement from the State Department, there is no real need to buy the soldiers of the Mexican army a GPS navigational system. The border in that area of the southwest is beauteous without doubt or question defined. This was no misunderstanding or accident. Indeed, the Mexican soldier’s action was planned, as it has been on numerous other occasions, for years. In fact, since 1996, there have been more than 200 confirmed incursions by the Mexican military all over the United States border. Consider that there have been more than forty similar incidents along the Mexican border in this calendar year alone. The truth is, the Tohono O’Odham border is ofttimes crossed by humane and drug smugglers from Mexico. U.S. law enforcement authorities know that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers. Therefore, the smuggling routine for illegal humane and drug traffic throughout the border, assisted by Mexican soldiers, is surely not any accident. In fact, it has become an illegal procedure that is now not even as time-consuming as an American boarding an airplane. Mexican soldiers are motivated by a payoff from the Mexican drug cartel for their assistance. They cross the border and threaten at gunpoint a United States border patrol agent. The agent is permitted to respond by calling for border patrol backup. Other agents along the Mexican border leave their locatings to help the agent being kept at gunpoint. After they are seen coming to the agent’s rescue, the Mexican soldiers flee back throughout the border into the safety of Mexico. The incident is successful in relocating the border patrol agents who need to move to rescue the hostage agent. This displacement of the border patrol agents allows planned entry into the United States for illegal drugs and illegitimate humane traffic. Then, the incident is reported by the border patrol and the scripted response of an unfortunate accident or misunderstanding by Mexican soldiers from the Department of State is always the same. Every day, from all walks of life, Americans do their portion for the critical cause of homeland security. Is it in truth too much to ask that the United States Government better aid their effort? What it takes is only what ought to be expected. To enforce the existent immigration laws, and to better support and protect border patrol agents. This may without apparent effort be achieved by increasing border security and by keeping the Mexican government accountable for it is usual military invasion of the United States border. Indeed, a more aggressive approach by the United States government to support the committed agents on patrol along the Mexican border would surely make standing in those long airport lines in the name of homeland security a lot having little impact for a heap of Americans to understand. |
