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Dear Janet Napolitano…come down and visit the border without your guides from the Border Patrol and see what’s really going on
by Hugh Holub on Aug. 22, 2010

Cherlyn Strong lives south of Patagonia a few miles north of the Border. She has a stunning article in the Citizen Saturday about her experiences on the border.

Ed Ashurst lives north of the border over in Cochise County. I posted his story about life on the border Saturday.

David Morales (Three Sonorans) has been getting the border story from the vantage point of our Hispanic community.

Previously I’ve posted stories about the lives of other ranchers on the border, including a recent report that drug cartel scouts are camped on top of one of the mountains on this side of the border west of Nogales.

I’ve also shared the border experiences of residents between Nogales and Tubac on the Citizen.

We have an aid worker staying with us who goes out every day into the borderlands to provide first aid and water to crossers in trouble. The other day a documentary film crew interviewed this guy and another aid worker who also goes out into the desert to help immigrants. While the Border Patrol is flying around in helicopters and driving around in trucks, aid workers are daily bandaging the feet of migrants and often calling the Border Patrol to rescue those who cannot go any farther without dying.

Did you ever wonder how many illegal entrants are spotted by local residents and called into the Border Patrol? Do you know what the response of the Border Patrol has been to all these calls?

Did you ever wonder how come aid workers are finding immigrants in trouble and calling the Border Patrol? Their apprehensions are down, but aid workers are still finding undocumented immigrants daily.

The other day you claimed that things must be getting better on the border because apprehensions are down.

We border residents invite you or one of your staff to take a tour of the borderland without your Border Patrol guides and meet the real people who are dealing with the border problems on a day-to-day basis. Get out of the “bubbleâ€

All I can say is wow. In his day, this writer was once the ultimite lib. He would have embraced Grijalva and Napolitano. He moved from Tucson to Nogales (border city) years ago and works as an attorney. Living in the midst of the actual border has enlightend and educated this gentleman. He now knows what jokes and hipocrytes Napolitano and Grijalva are.

Thank you Hugh Holub for your raw honesty.