An Open Invitation to the President of the United States of America

An Open Invitation to the President of the 

United States of America

Re:  An Invitation to Meet Me on the Arizona/Mexico Border

Goal:  "Listen to the Border"

Dear Mr. President:

I am writing this letter to you for a myriad of reasons. The primary one being the glaring reality that you have never visited the Arizona/Mexico Border.

After your confrontation yesterday on the tarmac in the Phoenix airport with Governor Jan Brewer, I feel, it is my duty as an American citizen to speak out and to also offer you an invitation. You say that you “want to hear from the American people”… here I am… about as American as you can get!

Mr. President, on one of your trips, you referred to it as a “listening tour”… you indicated that you wanted to "listen" to the American people. This letter to you, Mr. President, is an invitation to extend your “listening tour” and meet me on the Mexican Border in the Tucson Sector of Arizona.

Over the Labor Day weekend, you visited New Jersey to observe the disaster areas left from Hurricane Irene. A different kind of disaster is taking place on our border with Mexico, one much more threatening and deadly.

Leave your new buses in DC and instead bring a Blackhawk! Fly with me along the hostile and desperate border with Mexico. Yes, I know the stats that are being published; I’m a photo-journalist with lots of real time boots-on-the-ground work done in Arizona on the Border.

Mr. President, please meet me at the Border where you can hopefully hear as you really listen in this corridor of killing.

• Listen to the silence of the desert
• Listen to the sound of AK-47 fire echoing through the desert
• Listen to harrowing stories of the ranchers that live on the Border whose lives are a living hell that no one in the White House has even given serious recognition much less “listened to” for years
• Listen to highly sophisticated communication networks of the drug cartels from their posts on some of Arizona’s highest craggy mountaintops that resemble the topography of Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Listen as spotters choreograph their runners and warn them with their smart phones and GPS coordinates as to the exact location of Border Patrol officers to make sure their cargo – drug or human – reaches its destination in the United States
• Listen to the outrageous immorality of children that are being sold into sex slavery 24/7
• Listen to the screams of women that are being raped and sold into prostitution and sex slavery… traded like mere commodities for thousands of dollars
• Listen to abuse… rape… murder… strife… abandonment… futility
• Listen to chilling fear and bitter horror
• Listen to screams of the environment being brutalized every minute of every day
• Listen to the crushing of lives and families in epidemic proportions
• Listen to drug mules running through tunnels in Nogales under the border… feet, legs and backs burdened with 50 or more pounds of drugs
• Listen to coyotes trafficking humans through the sewers of Ambos Nogales… the futures of the victims totally unknown
• Listen to blood-curdling terror
• Listen to the highly effective effective Shadow Wolves on the Tohono O'odham Nation silently tracking smugglers with skills used and passed down by their ancestors
• Listen to the perilous tragedy of the exploitative conditions surrounding border issues
• Listen to the ghastly truths
• Listen to the morgue of the valleys
• Listen to blood running
• Listen to the very life leaving hundreds of bodies… these bodies are all human beings
• Listen to the silent outcries for help
• Listen to the drug and human trafficking coursing through our National Forests that have been turned into sophisticated super highways for running drugs, guns and humans
• Listen to Peck Canyon where one of our own was murdered in the line of duty with “one of our own” US weapons that fast and furiously “walked across the border”
• Listen to the assassination of our very sovereignty
• Listen to the slaughter of the American Dream

If we can take out Bin Laden with surgical precision oceans away, why don’t we seal our own backyard, Mr. President?

Great leaders are not merely assassins, Mr. President, they are most importantly and more significantly the protectors of our lands, seas and, above all, each and every citizen of this great nation!

Let me be clear, I’m offering my research, personal knowledge and experience of living on the border in the Tucson Sector for almost 3 years. I left at the bidding of local Border Patrol agents for my own personal safety. Yes, for me, it’s up close and personal!

My roots go back to an “all American” home in a small farming community in Illinois. Raised by my grandfather, a factory worker and a union member, who believed in America and her values. He held those American values dear in his everyday life… he lived them and passed those same values on to me. I love this country!

Mr. President, O’ why “won’t” you see?

Please allow me to show you… please meet me on the Border.

I’m aware of your “moats and alligators” visit to El Paso. With all due respect, Mr. President, even moats and alligators won’t stop this invasion.


It isn’t “coming,” Mr. President… it’s already here! Yes, the brutality and violence is spilling over the border and IS "coming to America!"

I will await your reply to my sincere invitation.

Respectfully,
Jan McCracken
Author, Dear Capitol Hill: O’ Why Can’t You See… 
Our Lawless Borders

How Rude! In Handwritten Letter, Gov. Brewer Viciously... Invited Obama to Lunch

While the media have been busy painting Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) as a rude finger-wagger who dissed President Obama to "score some points with Obama haters," it's becoming more and more apparent that the liberal media unfairly took a snapshot out of context to further the media's storyline. They're simply not telling the truth.
Yesterday I noted the AP's raw video that shows Brewer warmly greeted the president's arrival in Arizona. Yesterday evening, Gov. Brewer released a copy of a handwritten letter she gave the president upon his arrival where, among other things, she reiterated an open invitation to have lunch to discuss their differences. Noted Yvonne Wingett Sanchez of the Arizona Republic:

The letter says in part:
"You've arrived in a state at the forefront of America's recovery -- and her future," she wrote. "We both love this great country, but we fundamentally disagree on how to best make America grow and prosper once again. I'd love an opportunity to share with you how we've been able to turn Arizona around with hard choices that turned out to be the right ones. And, of course, my offer to visit the border -- and buy lunch -- still stands."
The governor signed the letter "With respect, Jan."

You can read a PDF version of that letter here. Below I've pasted a capture from that PDF, with the portion about Brewer's offer to buy lunch shown in highlighting.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2012/01/27/how-rude-handwritten-letter-gov-brewer-viciously-invited-obama-lunch?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1kgHp2XkZ

A little about the author...

Jan McCracken, self-published author of over 40 books, author of Healthy Carb Cookbook for DUMMIES® (Wiley & Sons) and Everything Lactose Free (Adams Media), is making a bit of a “genre leap.”

From Little Books of Tea, Garden and Fruit Samplers, nutrition and cooking with kids, McCracken just released an Open Invitation to the President of the United States as a launch of her most recent work...

Dear Capitol Hill: O’ Why Can’t You See… 

Our Lawless Borders

Border security of the US is buried… wrapped in a dangerous comprehensive illegal immigration burrito! 

Given this very controversial topic, McCracken’s mission is to raise awareness in separating the issues of illegal immigration and the criminal trafficking of drugs and humans. There is no strategy in place to separate these issues. As a result, our country is being held hostage!

If you have never lived near the border and witnessed what is really going on and lived it day by day, it’s really hard to imagine what is taking place… this is not a persuasion piece, rather one of urgency with a call to action.

Boots on the ground living in fear… websites… You Tube videos… articles…. Reports… behind the scenes and oh yes, stories… real life stories from real  people… 

Let me be clear, this is not fiction! Certainly not for the faint of heart yet a necessary read for each and every American because it is "truth!" Our very sovereignty is at stake. It’s past time to stand up, America… the time is now to stop this deadly invasion. It’s not coming to America, it’s already here!

McCracken refers to the US/Mexico Border as the “Border of Almost Too Late!”

Her bottom line of penning these controversial truths is arming as many Americans as possible with information in “one place” in hopes of providing the “ah ha” moment for each and every American.

Written from her own experience of personally living in this ”war zone” with real life stories as well as perspectives from those seeking the "All American Dream" that cross the border. 

Most importantly how the tangled issues of "illegal immigration" and the compelling issue of sealing our Border have become a blur.

Lawless Borders, reveals untold truths of the most porous section of today’s US/Mexico Border in southeastern Arizona.

United we stand and divided we fall has never been more true and divided we are!

US-Mexico Wall is a daily, graphic reminder of failed border-protection policies

Fellow Patriots,

This is an article that was forwarded to me from a very special lady in AZ that I call friend. It was written by her neighbor. 

During my almost 3-years of living near the Border in AZ, fast forwarding to today.... yes, things are different... but not a good different.

America, I beg of you to make 2012 the year that we "Stand United" because "divided" (and we are)... you know the rest of the story. 

This editorial just reveals many more threads in the tapestry of of our "Broken Borders"... 

America, it's way past time for each and every American to realize that protecting the United States by sealing the Border with Mexico is an entirely different issue than illegal immigration. They are NOT one and the same issue.

I ask you to keep educating yourself on the real issues... this "Tapestry of our Broken Borders."

Gary Nabhan is the Kellogg Endowed Chair of Food and Water Security for the Southwest Borderlands at the University of Arizona.

As someone who lives within 20 miles of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, I was intrigued by the chance to visit both the Great Wall of China and the wall between the West Bank and Israeli-occupied Jerusalem this year.

Of what I have seen and heard of those three walls, I must concede that the one between Arizona and Sonora is the greatest failure with respect to what it was set out to achieve.

Put aside your allegiance to any party or ideology for a moment and simply evaluate the tangible effects of the wall and our associated border policies.

Our government's Secure Border Initiatives (SBI) have generated a few limited successes. But overall, SBI and the wall have been counterproductive with respect to our security, economy, sovereignty and environmental health.

Let's review what we know about the successes and failures associated with the wall itself, and the policies behind it, as of December 2011.

The wall may be a minor deterrent to illegal immigration, but it has not reduced or contained illegal drug trafficking. Today, fewer Latin Americans are attempting illegal entry into Arizona than at any time over the last quarter-century. But the primary reason that immigrant flow has slowed is not because we have substantively secured our borders. Instead, immigration is trickling to a halt because our economy is a mess.

Our immigration policies and border-protection strategies have neither protected nor restored Arizona's economy; they have worsened it. In the first year of the furor following the passage of SB 1070, Arizona businesses lost $141 million in hotel, resort, food, beverage and entertainment revenues. By April 2012, canceled conventions and abandoned bookings will have cost our state's economy a projected $388 million, taking into account all sectors affected.

Our border policies have hurt our farming and ranching economies, while lucrative drug trafficking northward and arms trafficking southward have imperiled communities on both sides of the border.
So few immigrants are illegally crossing the border to seek farm work that farmers across the Southwest no longer have enough workers to harvest their crops. As a result, farmers report they are planting 15 percent less acreage in crops that require hand-harvesting.

However, the illegal flow of drugs and laundered money has continued to rise despite the wall. Worse yet, some Americans are smuggling firearms into Mexico, increasing violent crimes in Sonora and Arizona. Our economy is shifting in the wrong direction.

The wall has simply shifted (and concentrated) illegal activities to either side of its span, further endangering the lives of American and Mexican citizens who work at its edges. Within a matter of yards from where the wall ends on either side of Nogales, drug runners on ATVs frequently cut the fence that serves as the international boundary. They sometimes start wildfires on Arizona ranch lands to divert attention away from their pathways.
Unbelievably, neither Homeland Security nor other agencies are willing to protect or assist Arizona ranchers who must rebuild the border fence.

Neither the wall nor our policies have kept our law-enforcement professionals and the immigrants with whom they interact out of harm's way. The tragic murder of agent Brian Terry just over a year ago occurred just north of the wall in Nogales where U.S.-based thugs regularly prey upon immigrants.

At the same time, No More Deaths has reported several thousand abuses by the Border Patrol agents themselves. Both human rights and life itself remain in peril.

Our border policies and the wall have not protected our most unique and endangered wildlife species, which are among Arizona's most attractive tourism resources.

Mexican biologists have compared the wall's effects on wildlife to those of other forms of border barriers. The wall more dramatically disrupts the movements and behavior of at least one-third of the most threatened mammal species in the borderlands, from jaguar to bison to antelope. Further, our policies have undermined cross-border environmental collaborations.

Our border policies have not protected or enhanced the well-being of residents who live close to the border. The U.S. counties adjacent to the border suffer from poverty levels nearly twice our national average. Poverty and hunger in Mexico's border towns are even worse.

We must concede that our current policies and protection strategies are meeting none of their intended goals.
Until we admit this systemic failure to make the borderland communities more secure, livable and equitable, we do not have a chance at achieving true border justice.

We need a fresh story to restore health and vitality to the borderlands, not piecemeal solutions like the wall.

Gary Nabhan is the Kellogg Endowed Chair of Food and Water Security for the Southwest Borderlands at the University of Arizona.

http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/wall-is-a-daily-graphic-reminder-of-failed%20-border-protection/article_a6409a3b-0d5e-5bd6-8e50-966fdd9e5b68.html#ixzz1ieyhKbtN

On April 17, 2009, the Orange County Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $3.75 million, plus an additional $900,000 in medical expenses to an illegal alien who was severely beaten by other inmates in the Orange County Central Jail. The Mexican national filed a lawsuit shortly after the incident.

Fernando Ramirez, 24, was in jail after being charged with molesting a 6-year-old girl at a local park. He eventually pled guilty to the lesser charge of battery against a child.

According to his attorney, Ramirez suffered brain damage and now needs help walking. Attorney Mark Eisenberg also claims that his client has been left with an intellect of a 4-year-old child.

Despite the dire financial crisis facing Orange County, Ramirez received the largest settlement ever awarded by the county for an in-custody incident. The Board of Supervisors made their decision in a closed-door session and have refused any comment on the matter.

If anyone would like to contact the Orange County Board of Supervisors to discuss the Ramirez settlement, I have included the following contact list for your convenience:

-Board Chair Patricia C. Bates, Supervisor Fifth District (ph #: 714-834-3550)
-Vice Chair Janet Nguyen, Supervisor First District (ph #: 714-834-3110)
-John M.W. Moorlach, Supervisor Second District (ph #: 714-834-3220)
-Bill Campbell, Supervisor Third District (ph #: 714-834-3330)
-Chris Norby, Supervisor Fourth District (ph #: 714-834-3440)

Reporter’s note: Except for one story carried by the Orange County Register, there has been no press coverage of this matter. One would think that an illegal alien child molester becoming a millionaire through taxpayer funding would be big news.

Of course, a story such as this one would make people angry, and maybe even angry enough to hold their elected representatives accountable for the enormous crime wave being perpetrated by this country’s illegal alien population.

I don’t know which is more outrageous, the now-daily accounts of illegal aliens raping our women and children; our elected officials allowing our land to be transformed into a Third World nation; or a complicit mainstream press, eager to assist in the cover-up of our destruction.
Dave Gibson,  Norfolk Crime Examiner

Happy New Year Patriots!

Well, 2012 is upon us with a brand new year on the horizon. On a personal level, I'm looking forward to the new year, however, I believe that 2012 will be the most brutal, negative and nasty year that many of us have seen in our lifetimes! 

Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts... 

America, we have a lot of work to do in 2012! As the face of our nation is changing so dramatically, the face of the blog, Lawless Borders, is changing as well. 

Beginning today on the eve of the New Year, I'll be posting lots of article links and tons of information from sources all over the world gleaned from my daily, expansive research on "illegal immigration" and "securing the Border" with Mexico.

At the get go, it's very important that for once and for all that the issues of "illegal immigration" and "securing our Border" be SEPARATED. Folks, they are NOT one and the same! 

I urge you, as a fellow American that loves this country, to educate yourselves and to Stand Up America... lest our country be lost forever as we know it!

I've lived on the Border in Arizona and witnessed so much first hand in my day-to-day living in addition to doing years of research with my own boots on the ground.

Everyone is busy and the average American just get "slices" of what's really happening on Border... my goal in 2012 is to centralize this information for you in one spot... right here on my blog, Lawless Borders... so that you can drop by and educate yourself with a plethora of information.

If you love the good 'ol US of A, then drop by often... subscribe to my postings. Begin to understand that unless our Border with Mexico is shut down and secured that the USA is NOT a secure nation... the violence is not "in Mexico"... it's right here... at our back door and sadly, is "Coming to America!"

Let's make 2012 the year that Americans stand up for America and save our nation! Together, we CAN do anything! United we stand... and you know the rest...

God Bless you and God Bless America!

President Felipe Calderón shows exactly why he can't win the war he started...

The Fog of Mexico’s Drug War..After one of the worst attacks on civilians ever, President Felipe Caleron shows exactly why he can't win the war he started.
August 26, 2011 by Malcom Beith

Two dozen gang members attacked a casino in the Mexican town of Monterrey on Thursday, leaving more than 50 apparently innocent people dead, in one of the highest civilian death tolls in President Felipe Calderón's now five-year-old drug war. It was about as clear a statement of purpose from Mexico's brutal narco-gangs as could possibly be made. 

However, Calderón's statement the following day, as has been the case too often during the bloody struggle, was a hash of mixed messages.

The president called the attack on the Casino Royale "barbaric" and an "act of terror." Rightly so; the massacre rose above the level of the grinding daily brutalities in a war that has claimed more than 40,000 lives, on a par for audacity and cruelty with a twin-grenade attack on Independence Day revelers in Michoacan in September 2008 that killed 8 and wounded more than 100. But then Calderón went from condemning the attack to making an attack of his own -- against the United States, for its role in the drug dilemma. 

Calderón is right to point the finger at the United States, but not at this particular moment in time. Drug consumption in the United States was not what allowed the attack in Monterrey to occur. The total impunity that reigns in Mexico -- due to the failure of police and security forces to maintain any semblance of trustworthy authority, the dragging speed of reform in the police forces, and the absence of any investigative capacity or will whatsoever -- is responsible for this atrocity. And Calderón's inability to admit fault or honestly describe the sorry state of his signature initiative is exactly what is making it so difficult for him to convince Mexicans of anything, including the notion that his party should remain in office next year.

Mexican Police in US Staging Drug Raids Across the Border!

August 25, 2011
U.S. Widens Role in Mexican Fight
By MARK MAZZETTI and GINGER THOMPSON

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has expanded its role in Mexico’s fight against organized crime by allowing the Mexican police to stage cross-border drug raids from inside the United States, according to senior administration and military officials.

Mexican commandos have discreetly traveled to the United States, assembled at designated areas and dispatched helicopter missions back across the border aimed at suspected drug traffickers. The Drug Enforcement Administration provides logistical support on the American side of the border, officials said, arranging staging areas and sharing intelligence that helps guide Mexico’s decisions about targets and tactics.

Officials said these so-called boomerang operations were intended to evade the surveillance — and corrupting influences — of the criminal organizations that closely monitor the movements of security forces inside Mexico. And they said the efforts were meant to provide settings with tight security for American and Mexican law enforcement officers to collaborate in their pursuit of criminals who operate on both sides of the border.

President Caleron Blames the United States...

Breaking news...

President Caleron blames the United States for America's "insatiable drug consumption and for the criminal sales of the US selling high caliber weapons to Mexico!"

Monday, August 29, 2011
Press Release: Presidency of the Republic, Aug. 26, 2011, Mexico, D.F.; translation Presidency of the Republic

Mexican President Slams ‘Insatiable Drug Consumption of Millions of Americans’ after Butchery in Monterrey

Presidency of the Republic

Mexican President Felipe Calderón announced, in a press statement, a day of mourning for all Mexico because of the attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, in which over 50 people died. He declared that this is an unpardonable crime that society should condemn and forcefully reject...

...President Calderón urged society, congress and the US government to reflect on the tragedy currently affecting Mexico and many Latin American countries, due largely to the insatiable drug consumption of millions of Americans...

Press Release,  8 a.m. PDT, August 22, 2011
Contact: Kent Lundgren, Chairman
Phone (509) 961-7001
Email nafbpo@nafbpo.org

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers calls for new immigration policy to be rescinded.

Group says that policy will encourage further illegal immigration and damage respect for law by foreigners; says President has abandoned duty to law.

The administration announced last week that it would implement a new policy that will permit hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to remain in the United States despite being in deportation proceedings already. This policy is clearly designed to sidestep congressional authority to regulate immigration. It should cause great concern amongst Americans who demand a secure border and desire only fair, even-handed enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws.