http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topic/show?id=2600775:Topic:2607594&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topicBy: David A. Patten
An Arizona sheriff contends that President Obama is “undermining the rule of law” by blocking the border enforcement needed to prevent
illegals and narco-terrorists from flooding into the United States from
Mexico.
In an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu
said the administration has actively thwarted law enforcement efforts
to help secure the border.
Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County Ariz rails against the Obama administrations
legal assault on his states immigration enforcement efforts Mexicos
deadly drug cartel violence is bleeding into America says Babeu, who
recently invited President Obama to visit him for a lesson on
immigration control
As a consequence, Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of
Arizona, says Babeu, who is president of the Arizona Sheriff’s
Association.
“Every day, there are paramilitary, squad-sized elements who are out
escorting drugs or human illegals with AK-47s,” he said. “And they have
scouts on top of high points of terrain, hilltops, and literally for
miles and miles they control movement in these areas.
“Now we’re the ones who patrol this area. And I can tell you quite
honestly that we do not control those parts of the area, because we’re
not there all the time. And they know when we’re there and when we’re
not there. We don’t even have a helicopter.”
Babeu, an outspoken supporter of Arizona’s controversial new
immigration law, said the administration has made it more difficult to
protect citizens on an increasingly unstable border.
“The federal government, instead of supporting us and saying, ‘You go,
Arizona, sorry we can’t help you,’ they decided to go a step further
and drag us into court, with the ACLU, so they’re undermining the rule
of law,” he said.
“They literally want to leap frog over border security and just go
right to amnesty. And that’s not going to happen. This is our country.
You just don’t get to citizenship by breaking the law,” he said.
The nature of the violence “bleeding over into America” has changed
during the past year, said Babeu, who lists the following among his
chief concerns:
* His department, which is responsible for patrolling an area larger than the state of Connecticut, faces two or three high-speed pursuits a night. That never happened before, he said.
* His deputies routinely face drug gang members armed with AK-47 automatic rifles. In April, one of his deputies was wounded seriously when six
members of a Mexican drug cartel ambushed them.
* The gangs that smuggle humans and drugs are becoming more aggressive. “We have sheriffs here in Arizona, myself included, who have death threats
against us by the Mexican mafia and the drug cartels,” he said.
* More than 20 percent of illegals passing through his county are OTMs – Border Patrol jargon for “other than Mexicans,” and some are coming
from “nations of interest” known for terrorists, such as Iran, Yemen,
Somalia, and Jordan.
Babeu, who, along with Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has been an
outspoken critic of the administration’s failure to secure the southern
border, said: “You’ve got to be kidding! And this is not considered a
national security threat, when we know their M.O., what they’re trying
to do, to have sleeper cells come into America?”
Babeu told Newsmax he is certain border fences work. One reason for his
confidence: He helped build the fence that protects San Diego.
A combat engineer and major in the Arizona Army National Guard, Babeu
said completion of the fence that protects San Diego from Tijuana has
had a profound impact.
“The following year, once it was finally completed, violent crime went
down in San Diego by 52 percent,” he told Newsmax. “That’s an FBI
statistic.”
He urged the administration to resume construction of the double-walled
border fence and to send another 6,000 soldiers to secure the border.
Of those, he said, 3,000 need to be assigned to patrol Arizona.
The Bureau of Federal Land Management has responded to the escalating
violence, posting signs along 60 miles of highway linking Tucson and
Phoenix, warning citizens in English that the area is unsafe because of
armed criminals, drugs, and alien smugglers.
Babeu told Newsmax that he wants President Obama to visit the border region and “take these damn signs down.”
He added: “This is the United States of America. This isn’t half way
across the world. This is our country, and we should have a right to
enjoy our own safety and freedoms here in America, and not have to
worry about armed squads of illegals and armed squads of drug cartel
members. We don’t even feel safe in our homes and on our own property
in many parts of my county.”
Babeu said he believes it’s only a matter of time until the administration files a lawsuit against him or one of his officers.
“The allegation’s going to be made that they racially profiled,” Babeu
said. “And of course people are going to believe that, because the
president and Eric Holder told everybody that that’s what we’re going
to do.
“So that’s what they’re going to use to take us to court again, to drag
a hero, a police officer, through the mud publicly . . . which is just
shameful that our own president would do this,” he said.
In response, Babeu and fellow Arizona Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise
County have established a legal defense fund to support the state’s
immigration law. Information on the fund is available at
BorderSheriffs.com.
“We need help from patriots, from Americans across the country, to
donate $20, $50, $100, whatever they can afford, to literally fight
back against our own government,” he said.
“We’re building this legal defense fund to articulate a law-enforcement
perspective, and to say why we need this law as an additional tool for
us to keep our family safe and protect America, because you know what?
Our own federal government under Barack Obama is not protecting America
by having a secure border,” he stated.
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