I'm Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I
want to explain SB 1070 which I voted for and was
just signed by Governor Jan Brewer.
Rancher Rob Krantz was murdered by the drug
cartel on his ranch a month ago. I participated in
a senate hearing two weeks ago on the border
violence, here is just some of the highlights from
those who testified.
The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the
Arizona/Mexico Border have for years been
terrorized and have pleaded for help to stop the
daily invasion of humans who cross their property.
One Rancher testified that 300 to 1200 people a
DAY come across his ranch vandalizing his
property, stealing his vehicles and property,
cutting down his fences, and leaving trash. In the
last two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two
Koran bibles.
Another rancher testified that daily drugs
are brought across his ranch in a military
operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in
front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed,
1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the
drugs 1/2 mile are more guards. These people are
violent and they will kill anyone who gets in the
way. This was not the only rancher we heard that
day that talked about the drug trains.
One man told of two illegals who came upon
his property one shot in the back and the other in
the arm by the drug runners who had forced them to
carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily they
listen to gun fire during the night it is not safe
to leave his family alone on the ranch and they
can't leave the ranch for fear of nothing being
left when they come back.
The border patrol is not on the border.
They have set up 60 miles away with check points
that do nothing to stop the invasion. They are not
allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is
entering. They run around chasing them, if they
get their hands on them then they can take them
back across the border.
Federal prisons have over 35% illegals and
20% of Arizona prisons are filled with illegals.
In the last few years 80% of our law enforcement
that have been killed or wounded have been by an
illegal.
The majority of people coming now are
people we need to be worried about. The ranchers
told us that they have seen a change in the people
coming they are not just those who are looking for
work and a better life.
The Federal Government has refused for
years to do anything to help the border states .
We have been over run and once they are here we
have the burden of funding state services that
they use. Education costs have been over a billion
dollars. The healthcare cost billions of dollars.
Our State is broke; $3.5 billion deficit and we
have many serious decisions to make. One is that
we do not have the money to care for any who are
not here legally. It has to stop.
The border can be secured. We have the
technology we have the ability to stop this
invasion. We must know who is coming and they must
come in an organized manner legally so that we can
assimilate them into our population and protect
the sovereignty of our country. We are a nation of
laws. We have a responsibility to protect our
citizens and to protect the integrity of our
country and the government which we live under.
I would give amnesty today to many, but
here is the problem, we dare not do this until the
Border is secure. It will do no good to forgive
them because thousands will come behind them and
we will be over run to the point that there will
no longer be the United States of America but a
North American Union of open borders. I ask you
under what form of government will we live? How
long will it be before we will be just like
Mexico, Canada or any of the other Central
American or South American countries? We have
already lost our language, everything must be
printed in Spanish also. We have already lost our
history it is no longer taught in our schools. And
we have lost our borders.
The leftist media has distorted what SB
1070 will do. It is not going to set up a Nazi
Germany. Are you kidding? The ACLU and the leftist
courts will do everything to protect those who are
here illegally, but it was an effort to try and
stop illegals from setting up businesses, and
employment, and receiving state services and give
the ability to local law enforcement when there is
probable cause like a traffic stop to determine if
they are here legally. Federal law is very clear
if you are here on a visa you must have your
papers on you at all times. That is the law. In
Arizona all you need to show you are a legal
citizen is a driver license, MVD identification
card, Native American Card, or a Military ID. This
is what you need to vote, get a hunting license,
etc.. So nothing new has been added to this law.
No one is going to be stopped walking down the
street etc... The Socialist who are in power in DC
are angry because we dare try and do something and
that something the Socialist wants us to do is
just let them come. They want the
"Transformation" to continue.
Maybe it is too late to save America. Maybe
we are not worthy of freedom anymore. But as an
elected official I must try to do what I can to
protect our Constitutional Republic. Living in
America is not a right just because you can walk
across the border. Being an American is a
responsibility and it comes by respecting and
upholding the Constitution the law of our land
which says what you must do to be a citizen of
this country. Freedom is not free.
State
Senator Sylvia Allen responds to SB1070