Subj: NYTIMES --TODAY -- IMMIGRANTS FLOOD ARIZONA BORDER
Date: 6/18/2000 11:51:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: Ru Mills
To: rumills@egroups.com
CC: Rayelan
From Rumor Mill News ---
As RMNews readers know, we have been following the crisis on the Arizona border since March 16th when we first published information on the Aztlan Liberation Army --
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=2200
Since this time, many newspapers and other media outlets have covered the story -- but this is the first time -- that I know of -- that the New York Times has covered the story.
Does this mean -- as retired Air Force Colonel, Byron Weeks, MD says in his recent post to the RMNews Forum --
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=3686
....that the planned communist invasion is about to begin?
The NY Times is a tool of the NWO and bleeding heart liberals who have been duped by feel good propaganda -- I can criticize bleeding heart liberals ...I was one until 1990!!
Communists have always been downtrodden and exploited, warm and fuzzy cuddly bears to bleeding heart liberals. Just look at the way the Liberals in the White House have handled the Elian tragedy. Has one liberal told the story of Cuba's prisons, tortures chambers, executions and lack of freedom?
When all Communists dictators allow their people uncensored freedom to the Internet with no fear of retaliation -- only then will I start believing that the Communists of this world have changed their stripes and are now stuffed Tigers rather than slashing man killers.
What the following story leaves out is that this wave of immigrants is only the beginning of what will turn into a FLASHPOINT -- on cue from the White House, of course --
After the FLASHPOINT INCIDENT, we will quickly become aware of a massive guerilla army, which is already present within the borders of the United States. This army is the Aztlan Liberation Army -- a communist army financed by China with help from Russian, trained by Cuba and given pep talks and PR by the former Sandenistas of Nicaragua.
Now that the NY Times is covering the border war story -- does this mean we the people" are being set up for WAR? Race war or border war?
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From: Ambrovista
BCC: Ru Mills
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/061800ariz-border.html
June 18, 2000
Immigrants Flood Border in Arizona, Angering Ranchers
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
DOUGLAS, Ariz., June 15 -- As his anger rose against the waves of illegal
immigrants crossing the border onto his cattle ranch, Joe Harris decided
not to carry his gun anymore. He feared losing control and shooting
someone, causing an international incident. Even so, he wonders now how
much more he can stand.
"Things are getting very tense down here," Mr. Harris said, pointing to
hideouts on his ranch that illegal immigrants had used to elude the United
States Border Patrol. "The ranchers here are tired of nothing being done
about it. We're tired of the garbage they leave. We're tired of them
tearing down our fences. We're tired of losing cattle. We're tired of
losing our way of life."
With new law enforcement resources making other crossing points along the
2,000-mile border with Mexico harder to penetrate, the rugged area around
Douglas, a town of 15,000 people just north of Agua Prieta, Mexico, has
come under siege by desperate migrants seeking illegal entry into the
United States in hopes of finding jobs in cities as far away as Chicago and
New York.
After federal agencies bolstered security at once popular crossing points
like those at San Diego and El Paso, hundreds of thousands of illegal
immigrants, many of them with children, began flooding the Douglas area two
years ago, risking inhospitable desert conditions, including poisonous
snakes and daytime temperatures of well above 100 degrees.
But lately, they have encountered another threat: angry ranchers on the
outskirts of Douglas who have grown so weary of border crossers tramping
across their land in groups of 50 and more that some, taking matters into
their own hands, have detained the migrants at gunpoint until Border Patrol
agents arrived.
While the number of these ranchers is small, perhaps fewer than a
half-dozen, and only one migrant has been injured by gunfire since Douglas
has grown so popular, the ranchers' actions have drawn complaints from the
Mexican government and organizations in Arizona that say the ranchers are
violating the border crossers' human rights.
Even the rancher who the authorities say has been the most aggressive in
confronting the migrants, Roger Barnett, says a serious incident is
inevitable if the government does not do more to stem the northward flow of
illegal immigrants.
"It's going to happen, with me or somebody else," said Mr. Barnett, who
has used weapons to detain several thousand illegal immigrants on his
22,000-acre ranch in the last two years.
'I'm just sick and tired of all this. I don't want them crossing my place.
If the government was serious, they'd bring in the U.S. Army. We're getting
invaded."
Government officials, however, say the Border Patrol is making giant
strides in the border battle.
With more money each year from Congress, the agency has been able to use
its expanding force and new technology, like night-vision cameras, to help
catch some border crossers and discourage others. Those caught -- an
estimated one of every three who cross -- are interviewed and
fingerprinted, then sent back to Mexico, a process that takes only a few
hours.
But historical patterns show that the successful cutoff of illegal
immigration in one region pushes border crossers into areas of less
resistance. As the number of illegal immigrants caught by the Border Patrol
in the San Diego area fell to 182,267 from 524,231 over five years through
last year, for example, border crossers discovered that the Douglas area
was an easier entry point.
The 12-foot walls adjacent to the customs checkpoint at Agua Pietra extend
only a short distance, and the Border Patrol had only a handful of agents
and little equipment.
In addition, Agua Pietra, a city of more than 100,000, is large enough to
accommodate migrants arriving from all over Mexico and beyond, including
some from Europe and Asia, as they wait for the elusive "guides" the
American authorities regard as criminal smugglers to lead them into the
United States. Guides are known to charge $1,000 and more per person to
lead border crossings, and they risk arrest and prosecution if caught.
In the 1998 fiscal year, the 280-mile stretch of Arizona border known as
the Tucson Sector, which includes Douglas, overtook San Diego as the
busiest sector of illegal entry on the southern border, with 387,406
apprehensions. The total grew to 470,449 in the 1999 fiscal year -- more
than twice the number of five years before.
In each year, more than 40 percent of the apprehensions occurred along the
28 miles of border flanking Douglas.
"It was terrible down here," said Carlos X. Carrillo, assistant chief
patrol agent for the Douglas station. "Every night, local residents would
be awakened at 1, 2, 3 o'clock in the morning by people jumping their
fences, using their lawn hoses to wash, hiding on their roofs, knocking on
their doors to ask for food and water. They were all over the place."
The shift from San Diego and El Paso and other entry points caused not
only Douglas to change. Agua Pietra itself took on a new vibrancy as the
border city adjusted to the arrival of an increasing number of travelers
intent on breaching the United States border.
Busy streets near the customs checkpoint suddenly filled with pay
telephones that Miguel Escobar Valdez, the Mexican consul in Douglas, said
crossers used to ask relatives for money while they waited to make
connections for entry into the United States. Also, small "guest houses"
began opening to accommodate migrants, charging them the equivalent of a
few dollars a night.
A receptionist at the Hotel Villa del Rey, a tiny building several blocks
from the border that opened four months ago, said "the vast majority" of
the six rooms were filled with people waiting to cross into the United
States. Mr. Escobar said as many as 400 such places are now operating in
Agua Pietra.
Many crossers cannot even afford the guest houses. Juan Márquez García, a
28-year-old mechanic from Chihuahua, a city 300 miles away by bus, said he
had been living in parks for nearly a month, trying to enter the United
States to find work, only to get caught six times by American border
agents. Now broke, except for a bag of empty soda cans to cash in for a few
pesos, he said he planned to return to Chihuahua when he could raise $11
for bus fare.
Officials in the United States say people like Mr. Márquez prove that
their security strategies in the Douglas area are beginning to work, as
statistics for recent months show. Apprehensions in the Douglas area are
beginning to fall. By adding resources and extending the border walls
several miles on each side of town, Border Patrol officials say they are
taking back control of the region, especially in town.
But just as increased security efforts elsewhere shifted patterns of
illegal migration to Douglas, these patterns have more recently shifted
again to desert regions beyond the extended walls, where flimsy barbed-wire
fencing separates the two countries. As the Border Patrol waits for
additional resources that arrive each month, crossers have plotted courses
increasingly distant from Douglas and the highways they use for traveling
north.
In these areas are the private ranches where crossers hide until they make
connections, arranged by their guides, for transportation to northern
cities, or they get caught.
Often, the immigrants hide for days at a time, and ranchers complain that
they destroy water tanks for cattle, pipelines and fences. "Fixing them has
become part of our way of life," Mr. Harris said. "Ranching is hard enough
without doing all that."
Sometimes the immigrants grow so weary, scared or hungry that they
initiate contact with the ranchers. Mr. Harris, who keeps a rifle by his
front door, recalled a Mexican couple reaching his house one morning three
months ago, asking for water and use of a telephone.
"Their guide had stranded them, telling them a ride would be along in a
few minutes to take them to Phoenix," he said. "Since then, they had been
living for two days in a culvert down the road with no food. When they
showed up here, all they had was a Mexican can of Coca-Cola."
Mr. Harris insisted he felt compassion for people who wanted nothing more
than a better life. But he and other ranchers said they believed that the
United States government encouraged illegal immigration by failing to take
more decisive action against companies that hire migrants.
Mayor Raymond A. Borane of Douglas, who favors a new "guest worker
program" that would allow illegal immigrants to work legally in this
country, said the current economic boom in some measure stems from the
immigrants taking jobs that Americans did not want.
"They are helping drive our economy," Mr. Harris said. "And the money they
send home helps the Mexican economy."
Indeed, Mr. Escobar, the consul, said illegal immigrants from Mexico in
the United States had been sending back $6 billion a year, an amount that
represents the third-leading source of foreign revenue in Mexico, behind
tourism and oil.
So it is not in the interest of either government to clamp down, Mr.
Borane said, expressing an opinion shared by ranchers in the area.
But that is not so, said Doris M. Meissner, commissioner of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service, who cited the North American Free
Trade Agreement as an example of efforts to bring Mexico's economy and
living standards closer in line with those of the United States. She also
said government agencies did what they could to pursue employers who hired
illegal workers, using criminal and administrative remedies where possible.
Describing efforts along the border as "a work in progress," Ms. Meissner
said the trade agreement "should and will help both countries, but in a 10-
20- 30-year time frame, not 1, 2 or 3."
"By regulating the border," she added, "we're buying time."
For now, though, that does little to appease people like Mr. Harris, who
said he feared that ranchers bearing arms and angry attitudes could do
nothing more than drive the problem somewhere else.
Surveying a sea of old clothes, used water jugs and emptied cans of
refried beans, he shrugged.
"I don't wish this on anybody," he said. "But I'd rather see the
government solve the problem right here, right now. Otherwise, it only goes
to another Joe Harris down the road."
