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Hanged in effigy at Brazoria for wanting peace with Mexico, these "tories"
were: Ira Lewis (1800-1867), Thomas Jefferson Chambers (1802-1865) and
Samuel May Williams (1795-1858).

"Frank Matthews" <MATTHEWS@MATH.CL.UH.EDU> wrote in message
news:3DFE928F.2020906@MATH.CL.UH.EDU...
> Look folks the concept of closing the border is a fantasy.  While it
> would help the steel mills can you imagine stringing barbed wire in our
> National Parks?  And how much are you willing to raise taxes to pay the
> couple of million federal workers needed to patrol?
>
> If you want control of illegal immigration you are going to have to get
> control of the jobs.  If the CEOs & CFOs of corporations were spending
> time in the slammer for conspiracy to get illegals hired by their
> contractors you might see some improvement.  Unless anyone hiring an
> illegal is at at least as much risk of time in the slammer as a drug
> dealer you will have folks coming across.  They aren't to blame the fat
> cats getting them for cheap workers are the cause.
>
> Frank Matthews
>

Illegal aliens are already making use of our National Parks, and if you have
body parts that you value, you won't venture into them unarmed.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/10-21-2002/insider/vo18no21_drugs.htm
Drug Cartels Taking Over Forests

Environmental policies are driving ranchers, loggers, and recreationists off
the vast land tracts in the western states managed by the U.S. Forest
Service and the Bureau of Land Management. And violent marijuana growers
serving foreign drug cartels are replacing them. A September 25th
investigative report in the Red Bluff Daily News provides a frightening look
at a dangerous trend in America's national forests. Entitled "Foreign Drug
Cartels In North State Increasing," the report by Barry R. Clausen includes
interviews with law enforcement officials, ranchers, and rural residents in
northern California.

Bryan Roemeling of the U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement and
Investigations states: "The dramatic increase in marijuana production
supported by Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations [DTOs] is alarming. It
is primarily occurring in California but is not limited [to] there. We have
indications that Mexican DTOs are operating in Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Utah and as far away as Arkansas." Roemeling further states, "The problem
continues and is increasing. These illegal aliens brought in to tend gardens
are dangerous; they are armed and will protect their gardens. The visiting
public and Forest Service employees are at risk in many areas of National
Forest System lands in California. [This is] evidenced by the shooting of a
father and son last year while on their property within the boundaries of
the Eldorado National Forest."

According to the story, a marijuana grower arrested near Oroville,
California, "had hooked a very fine trip wire to a shotgun at head level on
a forest trail leading to his plants. When caught by law enforcement, he was
in possession of both a grenade launcher and an AK-47 assault rifle."