Left Wing Rhetoric Patrols The Arizona Border

A few months ago, we saw four beaten tracks followed by hordes of northbound illegal immigrants where a year earlier there was only one. Our home acreage sits just a mile north of Mexico, a goodly distance from Sarah Palin's Alaska, and we know when foot traffic is heavy. In recent days, however, that rush of northbounders has dwindled to a trickle.

Why?

There's always a degree of ebb and flow. When Border Patrol activity is stepped up in one area, coyotes will shift to other routes...for a while. They always come back. This time, they're not coming back as quickly. A few possible reasons:

1. More efficient Border Patrol activity. While we appreciate our BP officers to the max, this doesn't seem likely. Those folks are already stretched pretty thinly across the many miles of territory they have to cover.

2. The normal here-and-there-and-back-again cycle. This could still be the answer. We'll reserve judgement for a while yet.

3. The Left Wing Rhetoric Effect. Here's my pick of the week. Explanation follows.

Every mainstream media outlet describes SB 1070, Arizona's amazingly controversial illegal immigration law, as a "tough" new law despite its rather mild nature. Talking heads and left wing political activists from Raoul Grijalva to President OzBama himself are noted for horror stories: If you look Hispanic and so much as dare to take your kids down the block for ice cream, you could be hassled, arrested, jailed, and deported. Maybe flagged, flogged, fleegled, and flurbed. For those unable to tolerate a spooky ghost story around a campfire, the images are horrifying.

So horrifying that people in Mexico wishing to slip into the United States are staying home in droves or traveling to the California or Texas borders before crossing.

Since Pam and I keep our TV sets tuned to Fox News when we aren't watching America's Got Talent, and since I've actually read SB 1070 in full, we're pretty well inoculated against LWRD (Left Wing Rhetoric Disease) when it comes to this issue. But, despite their plunging viewership, the lamestream folks still hypnotize a lot of people. We have a friend who lives in Tucson, thinks in more or less liberal terms, and knows quite well what's being said out there. We talked on the phone tonight.

When I explained that the word "tough" in reference to SB 1070 was a misnomer, she was intrigued. When that was followed with the explanation that no one can even be asked about their immigration status unless they've already been stopped for another law enforcement reason, she was startled.

"But that's not what they're saying!"

"No. They're not. Sherri, they're lying."

That's when it hit me. The very advocates of open borders, those many individuals who believe Arizona should simply become a portion of Mexico North, have by their very vehemence begun the process of slamming the border shut! Because "their people" south of the border believe what they're saying! They trust them! SB 1070 gonna getcha! Run! Run! (English translation)

Oh, there's still plenty of illegal immigration activity. The hardcore professionals in drug smuggling, human smuggling, arms smuggling--they're not going to back off. But isn't it ironic? Isn't it just so remarkable that those left wing leaders are keeping thousands upon thousands of "interested" Mexican people down there on the south side of the border, even if only for the moment?

They will of course tell you, "Hey, beloved brothers and sisters of ours, it's not us keeping you from coming on into and/or through Arizona. It's that demonic SB 1070. Blame the people in power in Phoenix." They're telling you that already.

Bottom line? Were we not living right down on the border (or close enough, anyway), were it not my habit to pay attention to tracks and trails through our property on a more or less daily basis, it's not likely we'd have noticed the drop in foot traffic. But we did notice, and we've also noticed the huge amounts of support coming to Arizona from all corners of the country. That support, like the sudden hesitation in border crossings close to our homesite, would not have come into existence without all that left wing rhetoric.

Which leaves me cocking one eyebrow and saying to all those open border, open mouth, insert foot types:

Thank you. Thank you for helping the entire United States of America realize we really do have a problem down here on the border. Your endless, repetitive accusations turned out to be irony in action. We now have plenty of reinforcements and reasonable expectations regarding true border security in the near future.

We couldn't have done it without you.