Letter to President Obama, Senator McCain, Senator Kyle, and Governor Brewer
July 1, 2010
Dear President Obama, Senator McCain, Senator Kyle, and Governor Brewer,
Is it getting better? Have all your efforts, building a fence, installing surveillance towers, setting up “Inner Border” checkpoints all along the border, continually increasing the size of the Border Patrol Army ( 50-60 thousand now), helped? Have they stopped drug traffic and illegal immigration? Or just monitored it? You’ve spent billions of dollars for a “virtual fence. This boondoggle has all the earmarks of a wildlife study – should have been Game and Fish monitoring the migration of the Hooded Scratched Back. A thousand passed by; eighty-seven were captured and relocated! Did anyone ask—will this solve the problem?
Years ago I developed an analysis formula that may help you. 1) Define the problem! 2) Go back in time before the problem occurred; what happened, what changed? Eliminate the constants—search out the variables. 3) Cause and Effect needs to be reworded to Effect of the Cause and how they Affect us and the Environment. 4) Action—Reaction, the reaction to Actions has two sides: the Positive and the Negative. Count the cost! When you look around at all the problems in the state, country, and world, they are the result of the negative side of past positive actions.
Evidently Mr. McCain, you have never ventured outside Arizona. You stated that the drug wars have spilled into Arizona. They exist in “Everytown, U.S.A.!” As long as there is a buyer there is a supplier. All your efforts, laws, fines, fees, and your solutions are not eliminating the cause of the problem. You deal only with the effects and so do “We the People.” But we not only deal with the effects, but also have to undergo the affects of your solutions. Towers monitoring our every move, going through inner border checkpoints, being asked if we are a U.S. citizen.
I am a disabled vet; on June 10/10 I underwent a nuclear stress test at the VA hospital in Tucson. I was given a form about the test and that I might set off security devices. I put it in my wallet. On June 11/10 I had another appointment at the VA. I pulled up to the inner border checkpoint on Arivaca Road in Amado. The agent greeted me and glanced down at a monitor on his belt.
I was told to pull over and asked if I had been exposed to radiation. I explained about the test and showed him the papers. I was told to pull over and step out of my vehicle. I was escorted to the front of the truck by an agent resting his hand on his Taser. I gently opened my shirt and showed him my pacemaker—“You know that thing will short-circuit this pacemaker and kill me.” The agent informed me he had training and was certified (isn’t that comforting!). The other agent made the rounds of my truck and came toward me checking his monitor and then backed up.
I was told another agent and monitor were coming. I said, “I had a medical procedure and have another doctor’s appointment at 9:00am. It’s 8:15am.”
“It’s procedure!” An agent arrived and came at me with his yellow box, making all kinds of noise. He starts saying what the box is telling him to do—Back—Back—Back—Safe at six feet. He wanted my ID and papers.
“Just call the V.A., the number is on the paper.”
He’s on the phone and then starts taking more readings, “I’ve never encountered a reading like this.” He disappears into the trailer. Must have had to check his training manual! He finally returns and says everything is OK.
As he hands me my license and papers, he asks me if I will be coming through again tomorrow. “Maybe, why?” “Because this is standard procedure and if you come through tomorrow the same thing will happen.”
Remember “Cause Effects Affects.” Are we the problem or just “Soft Targets”? Awhile back I heard on the news that because the traffic was increasing in our area more BP agents would be patrolling. Where do they patrol? In Town! Up—down, back and forth all day in a postage stamp town; 10 trucks, 20 agents. Are we the illegals, drug runners OR because we live here we’re automatically accused and under surveillance.
The illegal immigration problem affects every state in the country. The barn door has been open for many years and has caused very complex and costly problems. Are your solutions solving the problem? The Fence -build the dang fence. Humans can climb fences, wildlife can’t. Have you ever traveled the Border between Nogales and Sasabe? A very mountainous, pristine and beautiful wilderness.
You keep passing more laws that do nothing but clog the system and cost billions of dollars! There’s a tidal wave coming across the Mexican border! Before you can mop up you have to stop the wave!
Drug trafficking and illegal immigration has been going on for many, many years and is escalating. It’s a war zone. A rancher killed, Vigilantes terrorizing and shooting illegal immigrants! The death toll is mounting. For the safety of all those living on the border, on both sides, the border has to be manned. How do you secure a perimeter, a border? Line of sight bunkers with crossing fields of fire. Patrols.
We already have an army: Border Patrol Armed with war wagons, all manner of ATVs, horses, millions spent on a “Ray” gun with half-mile range that stings. We don’t need to spend millions on engineering bunkers—bags and dirt worked before! You need creature comforts- there’s a surplus of trailers from Katrina!
As long as you continually focus and deal with Effects you will never achieve a solution. The causes are economic and people seeking a better way of life. You can’t solve it or change it! The best you can do is stop it – at the Border. The fence hasn’t stopped the flow; the laws haven’t stopped the flow. All you have created is a money pit of compounding problems.
The Border has to be manned 24/7. Is it getting better? I would like to repeat—I am a disabled vet—have traveled the World, seen many things, done many things, learned many things. I’m of the adage Stand Beside Her and Guide Her, but is “She” listening? Are you?
Sincerely,
Sandy Schlesinger
SandyintheDesert123@yahoo.com
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