Bordering on Craziness

As you are aware, I recently visited Arizona for a week. Part of the time, we were in the Tucson area, and did a day trip to the town of Tubac. It's home to a boatload of art galleries and shops about 50 miles South of Tucson and 22 miles North of the border town of Nogales, Arizona. The art galleries were quite interesting, but that isn't what piqued my interest.

Several miles north of Tubac, we came across a Border Patrol checkpoint where they stopped vehicles heading North along I-19. It looks like it's a semi-permanent affair as they have speed bumps in the area along with a trailer and signage that suggests that they are regularly checking vehicles going through the area.

Mrs. Lawhawk suggests that they are probably doing those checks in that area because they figure that they might catch illegal aliens who made it past the border and had let down their guard.

That's certainly possible, but one has to wonder why the Border Patrol and Congress aren't doing more to secure our borders at our borders. It's a sentiment that was echoed at several of the galleries, where signs made that point clear.

At a similar checkpoint outside San Diego, more than 60 illegals were found crammed into a big rig.

This comes at a time when Sen. John McCain, who represents Arizona is busy pandering to the open borders crowd and claiming to try to woo Hispanics. He clearly doesn't get it. He wants people to think that those who oppose amnesty and open borders are racist or somehow opposed to immigration. McCain has it all wrong. We're opposed to illegal immigration and giving citizenship to those that do not deserve it because they clearly chose the path of least resistance and violated federal law to enter the country illegally. The rule of law is there for a reason, and amnesty stands it on its head.

McCain appears to be out of touch with many of his own constituents, but that's not all that surprising since he's in a pandering mood. Of course, such pandering puts Americans at risk because insecure borders are open borders.