"It is a worrisome thought, we already have border patrol that disregard the safety of community members as they speed through our community. They play armed soldiers all day with various toys including three wheel all terrain vehicles, dirt bikes, hummer vehicles, four-wheel high clearance trucks, helicopters and airplanes and horses, and spy cameras and listening and sensoring equipment, out on our sacred lands disregarding our relatives the plants and animals as well as our sacred offering sites and burial places."
With 60 miles of Mexican border adjoining the southern side of the reservation, something had to be done to guard the wide open desert wilderness. The Mexican illegals, (mules) carrying as much as a hundred pounds of drugs were steaming north through a Mexican drug cartel protected desert, dropping their loads at pre-arranged drop offs along the US Interstate highways. A few were saying the Native Americans were turning a blind eye, not because of profitable compliance but rather out of fear.
Testament of collateral drug war damage.
Memorial along the highway.
Organ Pipe Cactus National Park
Here at the park less than 20% of the spaces are occupied. The reason why this is so depends on who you talk to. Some say it's the fear of the Mexican Drug Cartel's advancing mules and yet others claim it to be the US economy. Whatever the problem, we all know both need to be corrected....sooner than later. A good start would be civility and harmony within our political system. When politicians are busy playing "one-ups-man," little is accomplished in the way of solutions.
It's time to quit squabbling between ourselves and unite behind the common cause of saving this country. Let's not let the sun set on the United States of America because we were too busy honing our rancorous tongues and making the rich richer. As a nation we are only as strong as our weakest link.
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