Grijalva Wilderness Corridor For Illegals Proposed

You're not going to believe this. Rep. Raul Grijalva has introduced two bills that could be used to create a virtual free passage highway for illegals and drug smugglers as a fast track into the United States. Rep. Grijalva is Chairman of the National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee.

The first bill is the Tumacacori Highland Wilderness Act of 2007 that creates a new Forest Service Wilderness Area in Arizona on the border with Mexico. This bill, HR 3287, creates a new wilderness
area exactly where a major illegal traffic area already exists. Technically the proposed Tumacacori Wilderness Area is not "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.

If that was not enough, Rep. Grijalva has also introduced HR 2593 which would shackle the hands of the Border Patrol on Federal lands. Believe it or not, Rep. Grijalva calls HR 2593 The Borderlands Conservation and Security Act of 2007.

HR 2593 is full of cute phrasing and words to throw the reader off as to its true intent. But you might as well just handcuff the Border Patrol on all Federal lands all along the Mexican Border. This bill will have a huge impact on illegal traffic if Congress should pass it. It even blocks the building of a fence along the border.

These two bills might be called the missing link in the corridor where illegals and drug smugglers will be protected and the Border Patrol handcuffed.

By passing these two bills, Congress will 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.

-----1. Call your Congressman to ask for a copy of both HR 3287 and HR 2593. That will force his or her staff to read the bills. Tell the staffer that from what you have heard, these are very bad bills and must be stopped in their tracks. Ask your Congressman to contact Rep. Raul Grijalva to oppose both HR 3287 and HR 2593. Any Congressman can be called at (202) 225-3121.

-----2. Get a copy of the map of the proposed Tumacacori Highland Wilderness Area and see how it fits adjacent to other Federal lands along the border. See how it enhances an already highly used path used by illegals and drug runners into the United States. We've made up a rough map which we have posted to our website. Go to www.landrights.org and look for Border Wilderness Bills on the home page. You can also get a copy by simply replying to this message with the word border map in the subject line. We will send you one by e-mail.

Under this proposal Hunters would lose the use of the roads and jeep trails that allow them to reach base camps and to recover harvested game. The Arizona Game and Fish Department would also lose the use of the closed roads that are needed for enforcement actions of hunting and fishing regulations.

The proposed wilderness area and the closure of roads and jeep trails will halt the ability of the United States Border Patrol to protect this country. The wilderness would use the United States and Mexico Border as its southern boundary and would provide an open and lawless corridor for drug runners, coyotes, illegal immigrants and foreign terrorists intent on operating within the United States.

-----3. Call any organizations you work with that should be informed about these bills. Don' assume they know already. Urge them to take immediate action with Congress to protect our border security.

-----4. Call, fax and e-mail Rep. Raul Grijalvas office. Here is his contact information. You need to send him an e-mail through his staff person, Rick Healy, listed below.

-----5. Send a very short letter to the editor of your local newspaper about the two bills mentioned above.

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They just keep on trying to undermine our sovereignty....when they aren't outright breaking our federal immigration laws. Surely Arizona's governor wouldn't be so stupid as to sign onto this....not when she and her party are facing a major election year? She may think she will make the "greens" happy, but she is going to tick off a whole lot more people. And any true concerns for the environment without full control of our border is futile, as we have witnessed the garbage and damage done to the environment along well traveled pathways that illegals are known to use.

This could be the start of replacing our border with a green zone, guaranteed to insure our border is forever open, giving Bush's agenda a big step forward in abolishing our sovereignty and creating the North American Union.

We need to bombard these links with our calls and emails in protest of this!

The Gov. Is trying to make a path through the desert for illegal aliens LEGAL ! Stop this act now ! CALL CALL CALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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