THE BORDER REPORT

The outrage has simmered throughout the country for a few days now, with activists calling for a boycott of Arizona after the passage of the first state bill in the nation that criminalizes illegal immigrants. The loudest voices seem to think the status quo of sustaining what’s essentially a slave labor class is a solution. Well, no; it’s not.

Most of the economic threats I’m reading about this morning  are weak bluster with no teeth, particularly the loudest voices, the San Francisco, Calif., Board of Supervisors and the League of United Latin American Citizens.

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Oh, come on. Like she wasn’t gonna sign it. Of course she was going to sign it. Her re-election depended on it. I’ll go you one further: And the woman knows the bill’s going to get tossed in the trash for its illegal measures. The Phoenix Republicans love her; the Democrats will call the bill’s subsequent destruction a victory. She’ll get re-elected and the border will continue churning over billions of illicit dollars, unhindered until the next crisis.

For now, Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law this afternoon, creating one of the most draconian environments against non-white residents I’ve ever seen.

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Just got this information from a source in Southern Arizona. The U.S. Border Patrol is looking for this man, Alejandro Chavez-Vasquez, 36 years old, in connection with the March killing of Cochise County rancher, Robert Krentz.

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I’d hate to be a cop in Arizona about now. The Arizona state Senate just passed a bill that requires cops, under threat of lawsuit, to enforce federal immigration laws. I blame the Feds; particularly Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano.

The bill makes it a misdemeanor to be an illegal immigrant in Arizona. It requires cops to check immigration status if they develop a reasonable suspicion that a person is in the country illegally. The bill, Senate Bill 1070, passed 35-21 in the Arizona House of Representatives last night.

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Mexican and Arizonan officials are negating that an arrest has been made in connection with the shooting death of Robert Krentz. We’ll just have to be patient and see what happens over the next few days.

Krentz, 58, was a long-time rancher in Arizona’s southeast region on the border with New Mexico and Sonora. On March 27, he was found shot dead astride his Polaris ATV, his dog dying by his side. Sheriff’s deputies suspected illegal migrants or drug mules because he had sent a garbled message to his brother earlier saying something that sounded like “illegal alien” and “hurt.”