Welcome to Call to Decision 

"We are in trouble."

 

I'm Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB 1070 
which I voted for and was just signed by Governor Jan Brewer.
Rancher Rob Krantz was murdered by the drug cartel on his ranch a 
month ago. I participated in a senate hearing two weeks ago on the border violence,
here is just some of the highlights from those who testified.

 

The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the Arizona/Mexico 
Border have for years been terrorized and have pleaded for help to stop the daily
invasion of humans who cross their property . One Rancher testified 
that 300 to 1200 people a DAY come across his ranch vandalizing his property,
stealing his vehicles and property, cutting down his fences, and leaving
trash. In the last two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two Koran
bibles.

 

 

Another rancher testified that daily drugs are brought across his 
ranch in a military operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 
mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs,
behind the drugs 1/2 mile are more guards. These people are violent 
and they will kill anyone who gets in the way. This was not the only rancher 
we heard that day that talked about the drug trains.

 

One man told of two illegal's who came upon his property one shot in the
back and the other in the arm by the drug runners who had forced them to
carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily they listen to gun fire 
during the night it is not safe to leave his family alone on the ranch and they 
can't leave the ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back.

 

 

The border patrol is not on the border. They have set up 60 miles 
away with check points that do nothing to stop the invasion. They are not 
allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is entering. They run around chasing 
them, if they get their hands on them then they can take them back across the
border.

 

Federal prisons have over 35% illegal's and 20% of Arizona prisons are
filled with illegal's. In the last few years 80% of our law 
enforcement that have been killed or wounded have been by an illegal.

 

The majority of people coming now are people we need to be worried 
about. The ranchers told us that they have seen a change in the people 
coming they are not just those who are looking for work and a better life.

 

The Federal Government has refused for years to do anything to help the
border states . We have been over run and once they are here we have the
burden of funding state services that they use. Education cost have been
over a billion dollars. The healthcare cost billions of dollars. Our 
State is broke, $3.5 billion deficit and we have many serious decisions to 
make. One is that we do not have the money to care for any who are not here
legally. It has to stop. The border can be secured. We have the technology we have the ability to stop this invasion. We must know who is coming and they must come in an
organized manner legally so that we can assimilate them into our 
population and protect the sovereignty of our country. We are a nation of laws. 
We have a responsibility to protect our citizens and to protect the integrity 
of our country and the government which we live under.

 

I would give amnesty today to many, but here is the problem, we dare 
not do this until the Border is secure. It will do no good to forgive them 
because thousands will come behind them and we will be over run to the point 
that there will no longer be the United States of America but a North 
American Union of open borders. I ask you what form of government will we live 
under? How long will it be before we will be just like Mexico , Canada or 
any of the other Central American or South American countries? We have already 
lost our language, everything must be printed in Spanish also. We have already 
lost our history it is no longer taught in our schools. And we have lost our
borders.

 

The leftist media has distorted what SB 1070 will do. It is not going 
to set up a Nazi Germany. Are you kidding. The ACLU and the leftist courts 
will do everything to protect those who are here illegally, but it was an 
effort to try and stop illegal's from setting up businesses, and employment, and
receiving state services and give the ability to local law 
enforcement when there is probable cause like a traffic stop to determine if they are 
here legally. Federal law is very clear if you are here on a visa you must 
have your papers on you at all times. That is the law. In Arizona all you 
need to show you are a legal citizen is a driver license, MVD identification 
card, Native American Card, or a Military ID. This is what you need to 
vote, get a hunting license, etc.. So nothing new has been added to this law. No 
one is going to be stopped walking down the street etc... The Socialist who 
are in power in DC are angry because we dare try and do something and that
something the Socialist wants us to do is just let them come. They 
want the "Transformation" to continue.

 

Maybe it is too late to save America . Maybe we are not worthy of 
freedom anymore. But as an elected official I must try to do what I can to 
protect our Constitutional Republic . Living in America is not a right just 
because you can walk across the border. Being an American is a responsibility 
and it comes by respecting and upholding the Constitution the law of our 
land which says what you must do to be a citizen of this country. Freedom is not 
free.