Relax - border is secure

OK, everyone, you can relax now. The U.S. border with Mexico is secure.  ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz..... Believe that? Then you can keep snoozing....

Where did this little tidbit come from? A short Associated Press article from El Paso, Texas, says so. The great President of the U.S. was in El Paso (what did that junket cost us?) to surround himself with friendly faces (probably no drug lords or coyotes) and he "declared it (the U.S.-Mexico border) more secure than ever."

Let's see now. Calm yourself, Gus. Don't stir up the Feds. They might swoop into Woodstock and try to shut down the Advocate.

Isn't there some law (or maybe a requirement or at least an expectation) that the President will tell the truth when he opens his mouth?

I'm sure the border was secure where he was standing, surrounded by Secret Service agents and El Paso Police with machine guns and sniper rifles, bulletproof limousines, helicopters overhead or nearby, millions of dollars spent on his security while he was there. Ain't no one going to break into that news conference and snatch him (or worse).

If I'd been there, I would have laughed out loud. And plenty loudly. Go out of El Paso about 30 miles; say, out to about Tormillo on Route 20. Ask some of those folks how secure they believe the border is. Or look at the signs on an Interstate highway that discourage travel. This is on the U.S. side of the border!

An August 31, 2010, article in The Washington Times had this to say:

"The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state."

The area in question is a "60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 (in Arizona) between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego." Check it out on http://www.maps.google.com/ and see just how close that stretch of I-8 is to Phoenix!

If the area that is 100 miles north of the border is unsafe, what about the area between the border and there? And what governor or sheriff is letting Mexican drug cartels control any part of his state?

Why didn't POTUS go there for his little song-and-dance?

Maybe it's time to get a Glock .40.