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Violent Border Smugglers Scare U.S. Scientists
Foxnews ^ | Sunday, December 30, 2007 | AP

Posted on 12/30/2007 9:44:07 AM PST by Carbonsteel

PHOENIX — Biologist Karen Krebbs used to study bats in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Arizona-Mexico border. Then, she got tired of dodging drug smugglers all night.

"I use night-vision goggles, and you could see them very clearly" — caravans of men with guns and huge backpacks full of drugs, trudging through the desert, Krebbs said. After her 10th or 11th time hiding in bushes and behind rocks, she abandoned her research.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; drugs; fence; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; invasionusa; smugglers
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To: Carbonsteel

I don’t think you realize how vast and uninhabited this area is. Come on out and see if you can do a better job of it.


21 posted on 12/30/2007 12:27:54 PM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: B4Ranch
The war on drugs is a huge industry. It's a fiasco that has filled our jails, court rooms...The industry employs tens of thousands of interpreters, judges, cops, probation.. attorneys...The list is endless. These people are making a great living off this fiasco.

Seasoned cops will tell ya that all these raids, busting down doors with swat teams etc etc is a total waste of resources, man power and tax dollars. But it's a massive industry where those in government are making a very lucrative living off this "drug war". Big time job security.

Think about it, the Fedgov allows and even encourages tens of millions of illegals to enter, illegals that smuggle in 700 plus TONS of dope a year. They then run around forcing hundreds of thousand into the legal "machine" that literally sucks the money and assets out of them...Seizing property, fines, fees, court costs, bail, building jails, hiring more attorneys, cops, judges....

It's a never ending fiasco and a big government golden goose.

22 posted on 12/30/2007 12:40:18 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: Carbonsteel
I can't understand why our government sits by and lets this happen.

The only explanation that makes sense is the US knowing that if it closed the border, Mexico would go down in a bloody revolution resulting in a hostile communist dictatorship on our border, with all that entails.

23 posted on 12/30/2007 12:41:32 PM PST by pabianice
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To: humblegunner
Think about all the crimes committed by drug addicts searching for some money to buy a line of crack.

Line of crack. There's probably a funny photo to illustrate this, but it would get the thread pulled.
24 posted on 12/30/2007 12:51:00 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Carbonsteel
I can't understand why our government sits by and lets this happen.

You can thank George W. Bush. He has done nothing about the borders and will not. He simply ignores it. Just like dimocrats. Ignore it. It should go away.

25 posted on 12/30/2007 12:52:32 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Better prepare, come Nov 08, we have a Marxist Commissar President and Marxist Congress.)
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To: umgud
umgud said: "I’m sure glad drugs are illegal. Elsewise, I’d probably become an addict and ruin my life."

Whatever you do, don't buy a gun. You'll stick up a liquor store, shoot up the neighborhood, and put your eye out. It's just so fortunate that we have politicians to protect us from ourselves.

26 posted on 12/30/2007 1:13:09 PM PST by William Tell (RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
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To: K4Harty

Someone should be recruiting volunteers.


27 posted on 12/30/2007 1:18:18 PM PST by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: azhenfud
"Scientists must sign a statement acknowledging that the National Park Service cannot guarantee their safety from "potentially dangerous persons entering the park from Mexico."

How about the US Government "preventing dangerous persons from entering"?

28 posted on 12/30/2007 1:54:11 PM PST by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: Carbonsteel
I can't understand why our government sits by and lets this happen.

The weird thing is, that the whole problem could probably be solved with 20 good rifle squads. We have already declared a war on drugs, let it be so.

29 posted on 12/30/2007 2:03:50 PM PST by D Rider
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To: B4Ranch
You left out the extra prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges, plus all their hangers-on & teat-suckers.

Oh, and all those ‘gainfully employed’ Community Activists running enabling institutions, like needle exchanges, flop houses, and so forth exclusively for the addicted fools.

30 posted on 12/30/2007 2:08:37 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a Liberal/RINO hanging from every tree, He wouldn't have created so much rope!)
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To: Carbonsteel

Duncan Hunter is the only candidate who has a consistent record on the right side of the illegal alien issue.

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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts

Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts

In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd


31 posted on 12/30/2007 2:09:39 PM PST by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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To: USNBandit
I'm for legalizing drugs. I want the jails emptied of those in there ONLY for drugs.

Why? Because I want those men to be men, dads. In jail they are on a taxpayer-paid maintenance program to keep them as human scum. Outside in the world, we can bump them into shape.

The Needle park photo is anecdotal photo-propaganda. Such artifacts of more widespread drug use are (1) transitional, and (2) can be almost eliminated by thoughtful preparation for the social transition phase, and by managing that phase much as was done with the Prohibition, in stages.

The gangs of today are fueled by the lack of responsible men. What men there are to the youth who move into gangs are ex-cons.

Keep jail for the violent, the thieves, the extortionists, the bribe makers and bribe takers.

32 posted on 12/30/2007 2:20:11 PM PST by bvw
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


33 posted on 12/30/2007 2:41:49 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: boop
How about the US Government "preventing dangerous persons from entering"?

According to the Constitution, the government has the duty to defend its citizens; upon their failure, it is incumbant upon the state to do so. When both fail, the final responsibility falls upon the citizens themselves.

What would you do with an employee who failed to even minimally perform their job?

34 posted on 12/30/2007 2:43:15 PM PST by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: gubamyster

Bttt!


35 posted on 12/30/2007 2:45:38 PM PST by TheLion
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To: marktwain
The only people who benefit from the drug war are government agencies, politicians, and drug dealers. The rest of us all suffer from it.

I think he meant the illegals invading part.

36 posted on 12/30/2007 3:01:04 PM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: azhenfud
What would you do with an employee who failed to even minimally perform their job?


37 posted on 12/30/2007 3:17:17 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (To Err Is Human. To Arr is Pirate. To Unnngh! is Freeper.)
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To: marktwain

It is quite appalling what took place in the jungles of Central America. First hand from a Silver Star medalist from Nam. (what he told me).


38 posted on 12/30/2007 3:27:36 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: bvw
Outside in the world, we can bump them into shape.

Really?

39 posted on 12/30/2007 3:45:28 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: eyedigress
It is quite appalling what took place in the jungles of Central America. First hand from a Silver Star medalist from Nam. (what he told me).

What did he tell you?

40 posted on 12/30/2007 3:53:54 PM PST by secretagent
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