The US at war on its southern border While Arizona’s new immigration law sparks debate, the war has been raging for years

PHOENIX, AZ—Rancher Robert Krentz was murdered on his own property March 27^th, his untimely death perhaps the catalyst for a public frothing at the federal government’s porous border issue; Mr. Krentz is not the only American casualty in a war that has been largely ceded.

Border states are the most affected by illegal’s consumption of emergency care and social assistance programs. Many hospitals have scuttled in the wake of rendering unpaid services and public assistance monies have been siphoned off directly away from US citizens.

For those familiar with KP’s format, this section typically addresses the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan along with foreign affairs, but this piece is not about foreign affairs or the US relation with Mexico, it is about fighting a war against illegal immigration. And make no mistake about it, illegal immigration has become a war—a war the US (regardless of its White House occupant) simply does not want to fight for fear of alienating Hispanic voting blocks.

But the problem of illegal immigration has reached critical mass, with too few border patrol and heavily armed drug cartels, too little fence and too many flagrant mule operations, the time for action has come.

Arizona’s new law should be an abject lesson in the despair border states have long faced without adequate fencing and without adequate enforcement of Article IV of the US Constitution.

-- Killswitch Politick

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