Military troops along the border...

President’s Bush’s latest plan to augment the Border Patrol along our Border with Mexico by sending 6000 National Guard troops will be a blessing for US Citizens living along the border in Arizona. I have been following news reports originating in Yuma, Arizona and residents there are hoping and praying that Congress approves the plan.

Border crossers have long besieged Arizona, currently one of the illegal immigrant hot spots of our country. Residents of Yuma, Arizona have stated in interviews that their property and homes are no longer safe with the nightly incursions into their city lead by the coyotes. The low-life characters, who charge their flock thousands of dollars apiece, often take their money, lead them into an out of the way location in the Arizona Desert, far from water and leave them for the heat to dispose of.

Some time ago civilian human rights groups and Border Patrol agents began placing bottles and large containers of water in some of the remote Desert locations where coyotes often leave people to die from exposure and heat stroke, there are no statistics available to demonstrate if it works or not. In any case, even the smallest bit of water can mean the difference between life and death in the Sonora Desert. It is a hot, dry, unforgiving environment that was never meant for man or beast, yet these inhuman, filth coyotes, who call themselves human beings lead people through it all of the time.

The media is constantly drawing attention to the illegal immigrant issue related to border crossers when they need to be dwelling more on the depth of the illegal drug smuggling, which takes place between the borders of Mexico and America. The drug problem in America is not going to go away, or simply stop on its own merit. It needs constant work, workers, equipment and different laws and even then, the smugglers would still find ways in which to bring their death trash into our country.

It is unknown if Congress is going to allow Bush to proceed with the National Guard plan and even if they do; Washington has already announced the Guard will not be patrolling the border, just augmenting the personnel located there. That is a not only a waste of Guard resources, but may not accomplish anything at all. We will just have to wait and see.

The illegal immigration and drug smuggling issue is not going to fade away quietly, the National Guard alone will not correct much of it either, time will tell.