Arizona's battle will only get worse ~ By Barbara Simpson

Barbara tells us about the horrible situation in Arizona with illegal immigrants (and others) coming across our Southern border. Why would anyone not want to stop this from happening? She answers that question.

How did our border with a "friendly neighbor" turn into a highway for lawbreakers? How is it that politicians and the president make excuses and do nothing?

Perhaps there is a motive: allow the numbers of illegals to get so big that their only solution is amnesty, even though the American people don't want it.

By Barbara Simpson

Posted: May 03, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

I didn't want to see the headline, but there it was just as I began this column.

An Arizona lawman was shot by illegal aliens. Fortunately, he wasn't killed.

That's not the kind of news the pro-illegal-immigration forces in government and media want to see. In their own "honest, unbiased" way, they virtually ignore it.

Instead, they focus on the issue that the state of Arizona is trying to get a handle on a problem it's faced for years: the tidal wave of illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico.

For a week, Arizona has been roiled because of legislation signed into law a week ago by Gov. Jan Brewer.

It restates federal law that police have a right to question the immigration status of people stopped or questioned for probable cause. Essentially, the law says being an illegal alien in Arizona is illegal, reaffirming federal law.

The reaction to the legislation was as though Arizona had turned into "hate central" with politicians and the media tossing around the usual leftist slurs such as "Nazi" and "KKK" and whatever other epithets could be dredged up. Disruptive protesters destroyed property, attacked police and chanted accusations of racial profiling.

Arizona needs the law because Washington ignores the federal law. Arizona is overrun with illegals, and the state has become the major transit route for border-jumpers, drug running and human trafficking.

It's not only expensive for Arizona taxpayers, it's downright dangerous.

Case in point, last Friday afternoon: Pinal County Sheriff Deputy Louie Puroll, a 15-year veteran of the department, was on regular smuggling interdiction patrol in the desert between Phoenix and Tucson. He encountered five men, suspected illegals, who were transporting bales of marijuana. At least two were armed.

The area is commonly used by illegals entering this country and for the movement of drugs and people. Puroll confronted the men and was shot with an AK-47. The men beat it, perhaps thinking the deputy was dead. But he wasn't and radioed for help.

It took a massive search, but he was located and taken to the hospital. He had a chunk of skin torn from his back, but his injuries aren't serious.

A manhunt for the suspects has rounded up 17 suspected illegal aliens.

Sheriff Lt. Tamatha Villar said the shooting took place in an area with increasing drugs and violence.

She told KTAR-TV, "We've had increasing concerns in this area about being outmanned and outgunned and unfortunately this evening, this is coming true."

But at least Deputy Puroll is alive.

Rancher Rob Krentz is dead. He was shot and killed three weeks ago, as was his dog, on his own ranch, as he went to assist suspected illegals on the property. He was well-known in Cochise County for assisting such people. For his good heartedness, he was killed.

The illegals escaped back to Mexico.

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