Originally posted on June 6, 2006.

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The following was picked up from the Laredo Morning Times,which printed the story on March 5, 2006...

"A fatal pre-dawn shooting in Nuevo Laredo took the life of a young woman and injured two others Saturday near International Bridge I, officials said. The shooting occurred just days after the young woman was wed.

Not even a week before 17-year-old Nataly Berlanga Barraza was shot and killed in a spray of gunfire in the Sister City, she became the legal wife of 20-year-old Marco Polo Arredondo, sources said.

Barraza, who was the passenger in a metallic-blue Cadillac Escalade with Texas license plates, received a single gunshot wound to the chest. She was killed instantly in the attack.

Two friends, identified as 19-year-old Roberto Moreno Cardenas and 18-year-old Jose Carlos Ruiz, accompanied Barraza. Though Cardenas and Ruiz were also hit by gunfire and seriously injured, both survived the attack.

The motive for the attack is still unknown.

According to Associated Press reports, Barraza, Cardenas and Ruiz are from Laredo. However, as of Saturday evening the victims' nationalities could not be confirmed.

The incident marks the 35th killing of the year in Nuevo Laredo."

(excerpted from the Internet version of the story, written by Celina Alvarado)

Alrighty folks, the immigration problem on the border has GOT TO BE STOPPED. The situation from San Diego, California to Brownsville, Texas has gotten out of control. It's gotten to the point that not a day goes by where you don't hear some sort of incident involving illegal aliens or criminal mobs fromMexico crossing illegally across the border, threatening people living along the border, tresspassing on private property, or in some way making themselves a ganeral nuisance.

Some examples, other than the shooting death of Nataly Berlanga...

A tunnel was found that led from a warehouse in Mexico to a warehouse behind a diner in San Diego. The tunnel was large enough to stand in, it had electicity,and police found a huge amount of marijuana stored in the tunnel.

Along a desolate stretch of the Texas border, authorities are having to deal with convoys of drug dealers who try to cross the Rio Grande River. The police have attempted to intercept these criminals, who sometimes get stuck in the river. What generally happens is that the criminals call in support from the local military, who come in with SUVs, take the drugs off the stranded vehicle while holding the US police off with machine guns, they then drive away, after setting fire to the stranded vehicle. The US police have stated that they will not stand for this again.

People living along the border have said that they are afraid to come out of their homes after dusk for fear of being shot at, or otherwise acosted by illegal aliens, or the"coyotes", the criminals who the illegals pay to smuggle them across the border.

Governments are having to put out food and water at special way stations in the desert, so that illegals who cross in what is often-times very dangerous conditions or terrain can have something to eat and drink. This of course, keeps them alive...but their lives would not be in danger in the first place if they were not ILLEGAL ALIENS trying to cross our borders!

And as if the above were not bad enough, we have bleeding-hearts in this country who want to take the illegals in, bathe them, shelter them, and help them get access to the best health-care system in the world, along with our schools, employment opportunities, the welfare system, and everything else that goes along with living in America. It's no wonder that states such as California and Arizona are struggling under the weight of social systems that not only have to take care of the under-priviledged citizens of the state, but also the illegal aliens who show up and leech off the system.

And if you think Mexico is willing to help, THINK AGAIN! Not only are their federal agents assisting the drug smugglers along the Rio Grande, but if they turn the other way and give a blind eye to the situation, they get rid of a large number of people who would otherwise become an unemployment problem in Mexico. That plus the fact that illegal aliens in theUS often will send money home to their relatives still living in Mexico...money mind you, that they don't pay taxes on...and this money is pumped into the local economy. So to Mexico, the illegal alien problem in the United States is not a problem for them...it's community investment.

While talking to a friend of mine, whom I find to be a bit left of center politically, he brought up most of the same tired arguments for giving a shred of mercy and dignity to the illegals. When they get here, they need jobs or they will slip into a life of crime. Their children need education or they'll grow up illiterate. When someone gets hurt, the health-care system is obligated to assist. If the need is there, the social welfare system is almost obligated to help.

All of these arguments sound good, and in fact, they are tailored to pull at the heart-strings and make you feel all wishy-washy and sorry for the poor Mexicans who only came here to seek a better life for themselves, and they can't help it that they brought their mal-educated children, blah blah blah.

I would buy these arguments, and probably agree with them if it were not for the fact that THEY BROKE THE LAW THE FIRST STEP THEY TOOK ACROSS OUR BORDER!!! If a Mexican is here legally, if they were in Mexico, and they filled out the proper paperwork, if the paperwork was written in ink, as the Genesis song "Illegal Alien" says, and if they were accepted into this country, even as temporary workers, FINE! I can handle that, and they can and should have access to our society and the various systems that we use to keep it running.

But I am sorry, if the first act you do in this country is to break our laws, I have no sympathy for you. I want NO employment, NO welfare, NO education, NO desert way stations, NO assistance of any kind...why? BECAUSE ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE CRIMINALS! The sooner that the Mexicans realize this, the sooner they will look somewhere else to better their lives, whether that be improving the situation in Mexico, or applying to become either a guest-worker or a citizen of this country. The sooner our own people drop the bleeding-heart BS about the poor Mexicans who come across our borders because they want a better life, the quicker the majority of the resources that the illegals depend upon to live here will dry up, and the illegal aliens will find the "Land of Opportunity" a much harder place to live in...and perhaps they will stay home and try to make Mexico a better place to live.

My solution is simple...

First, tear up the way stations in the middle of the desert, and publish an article in every major newspaper on both sides of the border. The article should tell the Mexicans that if you are thinking about slipping across the border illegally...DON'T! If you do, there will be no assistance...no food, no water, no nothing, so you are risking your own life. And if you are picked up, no matter what your condition is, you get dumped back across the border into your own country. Do not pass GO, do not collect the golden ring.

Next, build a 15-foot wall (at least) from the Pacific Ocean to Brownsville, TX. At the spots where rivers must pass across the border, we should build watch stations to monitor the situation. Once again, if anyone is caught trying to climb the wall, or tunnel underneath it, they get dumped back into Mexico.

Next, issue a warning that anyone caught attempting to smuggle drugs into this country across the border can be shot...by anyone...maybe not to KILL, but possibly to maim. Once most of the drug smugglers in Mexico have lost an arm or leg, perhaps they'll get the message.

Next, the Minutemen and every single property owner along the border should be deputized as state police in whatever state they live or work in along the border. And again, they get the authority to detain any illegal alien they find, and if they find smuggling activity, these people should have the ability to shoot people in defense of their lives and property.

Employers harboring illegal aliens should be fined $250,000 for each individual. This will quickly dry up the small business market for illegal aliens, and most large companies won't like having to pay one million dollars just to keep four illegals. And by the way, if you're caught employing illegal aliens, the government should check back in six months to ensure that the situation has been corrected. If not, the fines get imposed AGAIN.

Hospitals who treat illegal aliens should report such activity to the Immigration & Naturalization Service, as well as the police. The illegals should then be deported. The same should happen when illegals try to access the education or welfare systems.

Put the national guard on the border. In some cases, the border forms the southern boundary to things like military bases and weapons test ranges, so doing so will actually increase the safety to the people trying to slip into the country.

Finally, all of the above items should be codified into FEDERAL LAW. It's already illegal to slip across the border, therefore the enforcement of the laws should be at the highest level.

Not all of our moves should be "mean". I say offer economic incentives to Mexico to build infrastructure and other improvements. Not only will the projects themselves be a source of employment, but the improvements will make the life of the average person so much better.

Now, before people come at me and say that my ideas are radical or draconian or will result in undue hardship for the illegal aliens, I would ask you to go back and read the incidents I cited at the beginning of this blog. My ideas actually take steps to SOLVE THE PROBLEM of illegal aliens, and it might be that the money spent on them might be recovered through the savings from employment, education, health, and social programs that are no longer strained past the breaking point by the continuous influx of illegal aliens.

Big problems call for big solutions. I am planning on emailing this article to each of the governors of the states along the border, along with certain federal officials who have taken this issue up, and are fighting for border integrity along our southern border.

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John B.
Blog Guy

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