It's Not Just About Immigration Anymore

The situation on our borders with Mexico is yet another glaring example of the absolute idiocy, and incompetence of the Obama administration. The president has now been given every reason to clamp down on illegal immigration, and especially to send a clear message to the Mexican drug cartels, that if they carry out their illegal activities on United States soil, we will act accordingly. Things are beginning to get downright dangerous. People are being killed. Areas of our own country are places where we put up signs discouraging Americans from visiting for fear they may be caught up in the activities of illegals and drug cartels. We need to say to these people, "No way. This is our country! You do not have free reign here. You will not infringe on my rights as a natural born citizen of my own country."

Instead the Obama administration virtually agreed with President Calderon on the comments the Mexican president made during his visit here regarding Arizona. Our president certainly made no effort to defend America. God forbid he do that. And there's no stopping Holder from pursuing his ridiculous lawsuit against Arizona over their immigration law. President Obama thinks this is the right thing to do for America to sue a state trying to protect its citizens?

Let us just chalk this up as one more wrong answer by this president as to what is the right thing to do for America. Eerily, it almost sounds like one more page out of the "Goddamn America" speech made by a man he "barely knew" after 20 years of sermons.

But I digress.

The reality, that the Obama administration simply does not get, is that the Mexican drug cartels, and coyotes who are delivering illegals into our country are making a mockery of us. They have the upper hand. They are doing their business right under our very noses. They view themselves as untouchables.

Sure. We have border patrol. We have other policing. There will be the token troops sent by the president. But who's really trying to stop them? Who's making an effort to get the situation under control? It sure in hell is not the federal government who is supposed to be there to protect Americans. Furthermore, it is clear that what we have now, to get the situation under control, is not nearly enough.

We need more law enforcement, more border patrol, and we need to send more troops. I think that much is clear.

Granted, President Bush didn't do much to secure our borders either, and so this is not an opportunity to find fault with a president whom I happen to disagree with on myriad policy issues. This is simply a matter of looking at things for what they are. We are fast entering some very dangerous territory here, and it would seem to me, as it should seem to anyone with even an ounce of intelligence, that the Obama administration is asleep at the wheel while America is literally under siege.

In the same circumstances I am inclined to believe that President Bush may have changed his tone, much as Senator McCain has, regarding securing the borders. Because it's not just about illegal immigration anymore, and Bush would have understood that.

Illegals entering the country seeking work is one thing. It's not a good thing. It's also not the greatest of our problems.

Drugs are an entirely different matter. Drug cartels are an entirely different matter. Drug cartels who threaten to murder law enforcement officers (whether on or off duty to me doesn't matter) who try and stop them from conducting their drug activity in the United States, such as was the case recently in Nogales, Arizona which borders Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, is an engagement. It is an act of war, whether or not it is being waged by a sovereign nation or a narcoterrorist group. The way I see it, as soon as a federal law enforcement officer, or one of our 1,200 national guard troops lay dead on American soil by the bullet of a foreign national firing a weapon at them—that is an act of war. The threat that anyone will be killed is certainly a threat of war.

It is, in my view, no different than Iran telling us they are going to engage us if we don't leave them alone. It should put our government on alert. It should put America in a stance to ready its troops.

The president obviously doesn't see it this way. Eric Holder doesn't see it this way. In their convoluted view the only threat is Arizona's law.

What President Calderon and President Obama both need to do is to act together. Both presidents need to understand the very severe nature of what these drug cartels are up to, and what damage they can ultimately do on both sides of the border if something is not done, and done swiftly and decisively. Mexico and the United States should be forceful allies against the drug cartels specifically. Law abding Mexican citizens are in as much danger as American citizens are. Governments are supposed to act to protect citizens.

I know I will probably be called out as just another war-hungry conservative. Still, we have a serious situation brewing, and I think the threat of troops from both Mexico and the United States might curtail some of their activity. It might cause them to consider that fighting with law enforcement is one thing. Dealing with militaries is another.

Let one bullet fly. Let one man die. If the president is still sitting on his hands, if Mexico is still complacent and unresponsive, Americans are going to have to rise up and tell the president in a very clear way that he must act. We have to protect and defend America. Not one single American should be against protecting her from harm. Not one single American should be okay with one single dead American.