Thread: AZ: Restore Our Border Plan revealed

Restore Our Border Plan revealed
Posted: Apr 13, 2010 2:48 PM PDT Updated: Apr 13, 2010 3:58 PM PDT

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TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - The Arizona Cattlemen's Association has developed a plan of action to secure our border.

Senator Russell Pearce called a special committee hearing to discuss the criminal activities along the border.

The committee will discuss the Restore Our Border Plan.

The following is the 18-point Restore Our Border Plan that was revealed at the State Capitol today:

Arizona ranching families will gather at the state Capitol to demand action to secure our border, called Restore Our Border (ROB) Plan.

1. The judicial and law enforcement systems, which handle prosecution of these criminal activities, shall recognize and apply an enforcement mechanism that provides for the prosecution of illegally crossing into the U.S. over the Border, for the first time, as a felony barring any person from ever working or receiving residency visa status in the U.S. No exceptions.

2. Immediately deploy operational units of the U.S. Military to the Arizona/Mexico Border. Station overwhelming Border Patrol/Military blocking force denying illegal entry at the Border.

3. Establish permanent Forward Operating Bases (FOB) immediately adjacent to the U.S. border with Mexico. (Suggesting at least one FOB every 12 miles)

4. Overhaul and add teeth to the "Pursuit and Apprehension" policies for Law Enforcement to assure deterrence and protect U.S. residents and State authorities from potential harm. In the first instance, authorize the U.S. Military, Border Patrol, State and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies to use these beefed up policies to enforce existing laws.

5. Authorize the use of force in the interdiction of vehicles and aircraft illegally crossing the U.S. Mexico Border. Empower the Local Law Enforcement leaders to adjust policies to meet conditions on the ground and not rely only upon inflexible procedures preventing Border Security.

6. Enforce all existing immigration laws without exception. Streamline and expedite deportation of illegal aliens.

7. Add 3,000+ Arizona BP field agents by 2011. Assure additional incremental hardware is part of Field Agent deployment.

8. Increase County Law Enforcement permanent "Stonegarden Funding" for additional deputies and fully equipped 4 x 4 patrol vehicles.

9. Expedite 2010 deployment of new generation digital radio technology to Arizona and New Mexico Border Patrol.

10. Substantially increase Border Patrol Recon 3, MSS/Radar and FLIR mobile surveillance units and operators. Assure additional incremental agents are deployed to operate this hardware and technology.

11. Replace outdated Border Patrol Air & Marine Rotorcraft air support with contemporary rotorcraft and small single engine fixed wing. Deploy air support on/near the U.S. Border.

12. Establish mandatory Cellular coverage for remote non-service areas.

13. Equip Border Patrol and County Law Enforcement with GMRS "Rhino" GPS radios allowing homeowners and ranchers to communicate in remote areas.

14. Establish "No Seam" Wilcox/Douglas, Arizona and Lordsburg New Mexico Border Policy Corridor into its own Border Patrol Sector.

15. Increase and fund additional Arizona Horse Patrol Units.

16. Streamline federal claims process for recovering damages caused by illegal alien burglaries, vandalism and ranch infrastructure/livestock losses to include feed stock losses on both private & public lands (fires).

17. Adequately fund State and Federal Attorneys' Offices to assure timely prosecutions of Border related offences. Stiffen 9th Circuit Appeals Court immigration and narcotics prosecutorial policies.

18. Measure Border Security success on the community via a monthly disclosure of all crimes, by title and code, committed and suspected to be committed by illegal alien activities which have conducted burglaries, home invasions, and ranching infrastructure/livestock losses. Establish operational transparency for Arizona residents of illegal alien and smuggling activity in their respective Border Patrol Sector and Communities to include County law Enforcement statistics and incidents.

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I wouldn't want to be an illegal invader squating in Arizona right about now! Your days are numbered invaders!

Plan your work. Work your plan.

Besieged ranchers want action on border violence

by Glen Creno - Apr. 14, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

Ranchers fed up with border violence in southern Arizona are demanding action to close the border and restore order in what they called a lawless area ruled by criminals.

A ranching group delivered a plan at an event at the Capitol for confronting drug and human smuggling, extortion and kidnapping and eliminating the murders that go with them. Their demands come in the wake of the slaying of Robert Krentz, 58, on his ranch near Douglas last month.

But ranchers say the problem has been festering for years.

"Southern Arizona is a war zone controlled by outside criminal forces," said Patrick Bray of the Arizona Cattlemen's Association.

The organization's 18-point plan for attacking crime along the border asks local, state and federal agencies for assistance. Members said they don't care which side of the political aisle it comes from. The full text of the plan is available at www.azcattlemens assoc.org.

Ideas include prosecuting as a felon anyone coming into the U.S. illegally, banning them from ever working or living in the country, authorizing the use of force to intercept vehicles and aircraft entering the country illegally, putting active military and National Guard units along the border, and adding more than 3,000 Border Patrol agents in Arizona by 2011.

Ginger Niesen of Phoenix was there to back the ranchers, saying theirs is a difficult enough way to make a living without the threat of attack.

"They're sitting ducks out there," Niesen said. "They're scared in their homes."

Gary Thrasher, a Hereford cattle veterinarian, said the glossy Arizona Highways magazine images of southern Arizona no longer are realistic. He said the border has effectively been moved north, into southern Arizona, and the territory has been "ceded to a bunch of criminals."

Douglas-area rancher Don Kimble described an invasion of armed people hauling contraband.

"The last 10 years, it's gotten steadily worse," Kimble said.

The group announced its plan at a midday news conference at the state Capitol on Tuesday. The event was supposed to be held outdoors, but protesters opposing new immigration measures moving through the Legislature banged on drums, chanted and shouted into bullhorns, forcing the event inside to a state Senate meeting room.

The protesters said they were there to oppose state Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, and his immigration legislation.

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