Anyone wishing to find out about the true situation on the southern border and theproblems
that mass illegal immigration is causing in our country can go to the following websites:
www.americanborderpatrol.com www.immigrationcontrol.com www.immigrationreform.org www.usborderpatrol.com www.tombstonetumbleweed.com
There are many, many more sites to be found that are telling us what we don't hear or see in the
usual media sources.
This was found at
www.letstakebackamerica.org
Posted on December 3rd, 2002. Reprinted from ProjectUSA
Nearly one hundred years ago, the southern U.S. border with Mexico was a place of violence, chaos, and political intrigue. A bloody revolution was raging in Mexico, Mexican agitators and partisans were operating out of the United States, and massive illegal immigration from Mexico to Texas was underway. By 1915, a full-scale movement was afoot among Tejanos (Mexican-Americans and Mexican illegal aliens in Texas) to establish an ethnically separate state in the Southwest.
Tensions along the border were high, and racial violence was common.
Things boiled over in January 1916 when Pancho Villa, a brutal, undisciplined, semi-literate horse thief, and his "Villistas" pulled 16 American engineers off a train in Mexico and shot them each in the head. In return, outraged Americans formed citizen vigilante groups, and racial violence between Anglos and Latinos intensified.
Finally, two months after murdering the American engineers in Mexico, Villistas raided Columbus, New Mexico, massacred 18 Americans, then looted and burned most of the town. The Columbus massacre proved to be a turning point, and prompted an inattentive Washington finally to pay attention to the border. The Texas National Guard was federalized, and U.S. troops were sent after Villa into Mexico itself, where battles with Mexican troops nearly precipitated full-scale war.
Today, three generations later, the conditions on the U.S.-Mexico border are strikingly similar to what they were in the 1910s. There is again massive illegal immigration from Mexico, violence and chaos are the order of the day, political agitators in the United States conspire with factions in Mexico, and a militant Mexican separatist movement has taken root.
Can severe ethnic tensions be far behind?
Groups like ProjectUSA have long argued that our government's laissez-faire attitude toward immigration and immigration law enforcement is a recipe for disaster; that there is every reason to expect that the wholesale illegal invasion of America will result in violence and ethnic conflict.
Now a man named Chris Simcox, the owner of a newspaper in Tombstone, AZ, has called for the formation of a citizen militia to guard against illegal immigration. In our view, while such a call was utterly predictable, it is nevertheless significant, and continues the pattern of the 1910s.
Perhaps Mr. Simcox -- or someone like him -- will be the Rosa Parks of the immigration moderation movement.
If the history of the border is any guide, the potential really does exist for severe violence, injustice, and ethnic conflict. To avoid such a clear possibility, our government must immediately secure the border, enforce immigration law, and help illegal aliens return to their home countries.
Furthermore, politicians like George W. Bush and Dick Gephardt must end calls for amnesty of illegal aliens. Amnesties increase resentment among native-born Americans and legal immigrants, perpetuate the impression that immigration is lawless and out-of-control, and encourage even more illegal immigration.
Meanwhile, Mr. Simcox of Tombstone has been careful to advocate non-violence; he seems to focus strictly on law enforcement. In a recent television interview, he appeared to us to be a levelheaded, socially conscious American concerned chiefly with the well being of his country and the long-term consequences of our reckless immigration policy. However, we must not force private citizens to take immigration law enforcement into their own hands, because there is no guarantee that future citizen militia advocates will act as moderately as Mr. Simcox.
In forming a citizen militia, Chris Simcox is acting well within his legal rights as an American. Furthermore, he is acting in the tradition of American civil action (think Minutemen), and exhibiting more backbone, patriotism, public-spiritedness, and far-sightedness than the vast majority of the nation's elected leaders.
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