Checking the Checkpoint
September 1, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, in Sahuarita, two community workgroups presented reports on the impending permanent Border Patrol checkpoint on I-19. There were cheers and whistles, there were groans and boos and laughter, there were no expletives, there were more than a couple of brief lectures on respectfulness and decorum. One wonders what the lecturer, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, would think of an Arivaca meeting with Border Patrol officials. She’d probably fall over backwards in a dead faint.
Tower Update
August 1, 2007
Three months ago on April 23, I heard that the Department of Homeland Security was planning to erect a spy tower two miles south of Arivaca overlooking our town. I found this an instant threat to my/our Constitutional Right to Privacy. Since then other issues have also become involved: freedom of information and from undue surveillance, to name a couple.
Border Issues
July 1, 2007
I recently served on a committee to study the establishment of a permanent checkpoint on I-19. I experienced this responsibility as urgent and critical as did all the others on the committee. Although we did not agree on the virtues of the checkpoint, our common ground was that we all wanted to help secure the border and keep our neighborhoods safe.