Our friends at the American Land Rights Association have alerted us that Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) has introduced two bills that, combined, could be used to create a vast border opening to Mexico, providing a virtual freeway for illegals and drug smugglers into the United States. H.R. 3287, the “Wilderness Bill,” proposes the Tumacacori Highland Wilderness as the new Forest Service Wilderness Area in Arizona on the border with Mexico. It is contiguous with the small, old, Pajarito Wilderness Area that is directly on the border and links the Pajarito Wilderness Area with Interstate 19 and the Interior of the country.
It would open a huge clear path for illegals and drug running while limiting the ability of law enforcement to intercede. It is the Wilderness border bill on a fast track for illegal immigration!Illegal immigrants who leave ribbons of garbage along their well-defined trails have already trashed the most pristine parts of the Proposed Wilderness Area. The Forest Service has already lost control of illegal immigration from Mexico, but it will worsen if the Wilderness bill is passed.
HR 2593, the “Borderlands Conservation and Security Act of 2007,” creates a new Forest Service Wilderness Area in Arizona on the border with Mexico, exactly where a major illegal immigration traffic area and drug smuggling pathway already exists. This bill is full of misleading words to disguise the true intent and would shackle the hands of the Border Control on Federal lands.
These two bills together create a freeway for illegal immigration and drug smuggling that will be protected while the Border Patrol is handcuffed. By passing these two bills, Congress would create a massive area open to illegals and vastly strangle the ability of law enforcement and the Border Patrol to fight drug importation and illegal immigration.
These bills are scheduled to be debated in committee THIS TUESDAY! Pro-illegal alien Congressmen will be able to railroad this bill through quickly… UNLESS WE STOP THEM!
TAKE ACTION: H.R. 3287, the proposed Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness Area, would open wide an existing clear path through the Coronado National Forest for illegals and drug running, while limiting the ability of law enforcement to intercede. H.R. 2593, the “Borderlands Conservation and Security Act of 2007,” would greatly handicap law enforcement and the Border Patrol in the proposed Wilderness Area and all Federal lands all along the border. It doesn’t allow the Border Patrol to even operate on Federal lands anywhere, but is focused on a 150-mile stretch of border in just Arizona alone. H.R. 2593 is full of misleading words to throw the reader off as to its true intent. It even blocks the building of a fence along the border! Law enforcement will be affected severely.
Roads crisscross the Tumacacori area and the previous attempt to have it classified as "Wilderness" in 1984 was rejected on the basis that it was not a roadless area. A vast historic network of roads still exists with a huge increase in population of Arizona. The roads receive much greater use now than when the previous effort was made to classify the area as "wilderness". The current effort to create a Wilderness Area endeavors to circumvent the "roadless" requirement by "cherry stemming" the Wilderness Area into multiple strips of Wilderness between existing roads. The resulting map of the "Wilderness Area" is ridiculous: a large number of fingers of Wilderness between roads.The H.R. 3287 Wilderness border bill is a fast track for illegal immigration. Combined with the proposed H.R. 2593, these bills could be used to create a virtual freeway for illegals and drug smugglers as a fast track into the United States, in an area exactly where a major illegal immigration traffic area and drug smuggling pathway already exists. We need to let every Member of Congress know we OPPOSE these bills -- but we have to move FAST!
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Please also keep your eyes open for S237/S340 and HR371 (AgJobs Bill) to leave their committees and go to both floors for debate. These are 3 bills that are one and the same bill..all identical. They provide amnesty to agriculture illegal workers by giving them a Blue Card and then making them legal residents once they have their Blue Cards, including their spouses and under-age children.
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The Dems continue to fire salvos to get the original bill into law by separating things out into individual bills. We just have to stay alert for their shannagans. The DREAM Act went down..let's make sure these others go down as well!