Brazen Efforts to Harm Border Patrol Should Ignite Furor

Illegal aliens and their supporters resort to increasingly violent tactics to intimidate our border patrol agents. (click here for article)

In January smugglers ran down a border agent, Luis Aguilar, who was attempting to place a spike strip in their path. (click here for article) Agent Aguilar is survived by his wife and two young children. While his family mourns, the drug smugglers have probably run several shipments of narcotics over the border in the past month...

We should be relieved to know that the Mexican government is doing all it can to find the people who murdered Aguilar...

Now border agents have discovered a trip wire designed to decapitate agents riding on ATVs along the border. (click here for article) The wire, attached on one end to a fence in the U.S. could be pulled taut from the Mexican side of the border and was clearly designed to decapitate an agent riding an ATV.

According to local border patrol agents, the area near Tijuana is controlled by criminals. Again, we should be optimistic the Mexican government is doing all it can to ensure the local criminals are being arrested...

When will we wake up to the truth that the Mexican government is not working with us to control the border or to arrest the criminals who threaten the border agents who are willing to sacrifice their lives to protect our country from illegal aliens who undermine our national security.

The border agents deserve better. We need to secure the border but we also need to punish harshly and quickly any person who threatens the safety of any border patrol agent.

The United States government should use all diplomatic means possible to pressure the Mexican government to actually work to stop its citizens from entering the U.S. illegally. Instead our government is considering giving Mexico hundreds of millions of dollars to secure its southern border. (click here for state dept info)

Michelle Malkin has a very informative post about the lunacy running rampant at the State Department. (click here for Malkin's comments)

Call your legislators...