From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Wednesday 14APR10 9 p.m. EDT

Send fax to promote new bill to close giant loophole on border that led to rancher's murder

Honor murdered rancher with great new border bill

DEAR FRIENDS OF SECURE BORDERS,

You are getting almost immediate results from your sending nearly 200,000 faxes last week to Congress and the White House demanding that the federal government stop the lawlessness and near-anarchy on our southern border that ended the life of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz on March 27.

Today, four Members of Congress introduced a simple bill that they believe will greatly increase the safety of Americans living near the border, while improving the health of the natural environment.

ACTION: Send this fax to your U.S. Representative urging immediate co-sponsorship to push H.R. 5016 to an emergency vote.

Under H.R. 5016, two agencies of the federal government would no longer be allowed to prevent another federal agency from trying to stop the illegal traffic across public lands.

THIS IS THE H.R. 5016 BILL IN ITS ENTIRETY

Neither the Secretary of Interior nor the Secretary of Agriculture shall impede, prohibit, or restrict activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security on public lands to achieve operational control (as defined in section 2(b) of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (8 U.s.C. 1701 note; Public Law 109-367) over the international land and maritime borders of the United States.

The four U.S. Congressmen stated in their introduction of the bill that Mr. Krentz on March 27 was "shot and killed by a criminal who entered and exited the U.S. through the (federal) San Bernardino Wildlife Refuge," which borders Mexico.

They stated that the agency managing that large refuge severely restricts the Border Patrol's access. The Mexican drug cartels that control most of the Mexican side of the border are well aware that the wildlife refuge is a virtual illegal-traffic sanctuary in which illegal aliens can tromp through with impunity.

Tragically and ironic, the best routes for drug smugglers, slave traders, cheap-labor trafficers and terrorists are across 20.7 million acres along the border owned by the U.S. government.

Trying to put a stop to this travesty are the four sponsors of the new bill:

# Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the House National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee

# Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee

# Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee

# Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee

If you are represented by one of these officials, you will NOT find a fax to send to them if you click on the link above. Instead, go to your Action Board and find a thank you fax to send there.

Read the rest of my blog explaining the problems on these public lands and what this bill would do.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IS THE EXCUSE FOR LAWLESSNESS THAT DESTROYS THE ENVIRONMENT

The managers of these vast federal natural refuges are not obstructing the Border Patrol because they favor lawlessness or desire U.S. citizens around them to live in constant danger -- or because they want their own personnel to be routinely placed in harm's way.

Rather, these managers are charged with protecting the fragile ecosystems of plants and animals within their territory. But in the process, they seem to be making it nearly impossible much of the time for the Border Patrol to use vehicles in a timely manner to stop or deter the hundreds of thousands of illegal foreign entrants who march across the land.

Speaking for myself, I am glad these public lands managers take their jobs so seriously. I am glad that our government places such a high priority on ensuring that these natural areas and their non-human inhabitants survive to be there for future generations of human Americans.

But the current decisions about eco-protection not only endangers the lives of the human residents of our country but creates grave damage to the eco-systems as well. As the authors of the bill note:

These Wilderness areas suffer from mounds of discarded trash, dumping of toxic waste, destruction of plants, soil erosion and wildfires started by criminal cartels.

As we have previously reported, when the Border Patrol has been allowed to do its job in deterring small armies of illegal aliens, whole eco-systems have sprung back to life from their trampled state.

DON'T LET THIS BILL BE JUST A PUBLIC RELATIONS VICTORY FOR ITS SPONSORS.

WHY CAN'T WE FORCE THE U.S. HOUSE TO VOTE ON THIS BEFORE MEMORIAL DAY?

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