Ignored and sacrificed.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=5535

Above is an article that all Americans need to know about. There is a YouTube video which needs to be watched by all those who have any love for this country and its values.

While Bush gives a speech in Abu Dhabi on the support and spreading of Democracy, these very values of a Democratic nation, his home nation, are under attack and erosion on our Southern border with no apparent sense of urgency.

Over the last year, 29 incursions by military or armed state officials from Mexico have been documented. More than 200 in the past ten years. These are only what has been seen, who knows what or how many have not been documented. The U.S. border guard, UAV's and National Guard units patrol borders in Iraq, but the numbers are pitifully low on our own border. There is more security at a Baseball game per square mile than on the Rio Grande.

I am afraid what it will take is a mass killing of citizens or the loss of a member of one of the political parties families for action to take place. Its a matter of time before something very evil happens. The Zetas, Mexican special forces trained by the US and now gone maverick, since there is more money in drugs and banditry, control the towns just across the river from the US.

A story on the recent Rio Bravo firefight:

The kind of terror we associate with Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia can show up a lot closer to home. Take, for example, the recent "Tamaulipas Drug War" just south of the U.S. border in Mexico. In an era of "small war," what amounts to a major battle took place on January 7th, in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Mexican Federal Police personnel spotted a van carrying three men, who were openly carrying automatic weapons. When the police attempted to stop the van, the men opened fire, abandoned their vehicle, and fled into a nearby house, which was apparently the headquarters of a drug gang. Heavy fire was soon coming from the building, which like most Mexican houses was of cement-cinder block-rebar construction, and thus essentially a bunker. The police called for reinforcements. As scores of Federal Police and some troops responded, the action grew into a major fire fight. The fight lasted a little over a half hour, as the security forces quickly gained the upper hand, helped by RPGs and, reportedly, machine gun fire, provided by the troops.

When the fighting ended, ten police officers and soldiers had been wounded, but three of the drug gang were dead and ten more, some of them wounded, were in custody. A considerable arsenal was confiscated, including 7 automatic weapons, 16 "sniper rifles," a dozen automatic pistols, and a grenade launcher, plus grenades and ammunition, as well as flack jackets and some radios. Much of the equipment appeared to have come from the U.S.

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Given that it began when armed men were seen driving through the streets, and that it occurred in close proximity to what appears to have been a major drug operations center, it's possible that incident may have been a deliberate effort by "El Lazco" to provoke a shootout with the Federal Police, in an attempt to intimidate them, as he done with many of the local police forces in the area. Even this is not the case, the likelihood is that there will be more such battles, as the current Mexican government seems to be serious about dealing with the drug cartels

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If the druggies intentionally provoked this fire fight it was a mistake. This is a real win for the federalis. What the insurgents need to take away from this battle is that Mexican authorities finally have enough fire power in the area to deal with them. the post goes on to point out Mexico's failure to enforce its own border when it comes to importing weapons.

http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2008/01/details-on-shootout-at-rio-bravo.html

This shows you that the lawlessness of the Border has gotten out of hand.When will the states take it into their own hands, since the Feds do not seem to care, and do what it takes to secure their own security. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that police have no duty to respond to 911 calls. It seems the greatest 911 call of all, the out cry of American citizens to stop this invasion, has also been ignored. The concept of self defense is not guaranteed by any governmental office, although the Constitution requires it, and has in fact now been made personal on a border wide scale, so we must be responsible for our own safety, whether in our home(our lodgings) or our home, this nation.