U.S. Ranchers on Border Plead for Help Amid Onslaught

U.S. Ranchers on Border Plead for Help Amid Onslaught

Hundreds of distraught ranchers and other citizens living near the increasingly dangerous U.S.-Mexico border met with elected officials in the small town of Animas, New Mexico, last week to share their horror stories of lawlessness and plead for proper border security. Despite bogus claims by politicians and the Obama administration about the southern border region allegedly being “secure,” those speaking at the summit blasted the “invasion” and said the security situation was spiraling out of control. It is time for serious action, local citizens said.

Smugglers and other criminals are pouring across the often undefended border, residents explained, jeopardizing their livelihoods and even their lives — not to mention national security. Some of the speakers had even lost loved ones in the lawlessness. And despite years of pleading with federal and state officials for help, residents, activists, and ranchers sounded exasperated, saying their pleas had gone unanswered so far. More boots on the ground are needed, locals said. At least one retired lawman suggested that sheriffs deputize citizens. Some attendees even called for deploying troops to the border.

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Bill
Bill
8 years ago

it’s high time for the Sheriffs in those counties on the border to deputize a posse of 10,000 men and begin shooting and eliminating the invaders. Kick out all federal police as well as the FBI who are continuing to take bad orders from there treasonous superiors and if the CIA is down there with there drug smuggling operations which have been going on for thirty years they need to be locked up or shot on site.