The Obama admin fights drug smugglers .... with signs

By GOPUSA Staff
September 3, 2010 6:33 AM
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That's not all they are doing of course. They did send 30 National Guard members into Arizona on Monday. That should scare those drug smugglers.

The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.

The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego.

In other words, the Obama administration is admitting that it cannot protect American citizens within 100 miles of its own border.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.

"Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona," he said. "They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.

Governor Jan Brewer has been asking for real help, not signs, for many months now. WHat have they gotten? 30 National Guard troops, signs saying it's dangerous and several lawsuits by the Justice Department.

Video: Brewer to Obama: Warning Signs Are Not Enough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDlN7VL ... r_embedded

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