West Burlington IA News-Sports-Opinion

Northern border:

The Pacific Northwest has one of the largest concentrations of Southeast Asian population in the United States of America. We are currently looking at all of the illegal immigrants that are crossing our southern border. We have great concern about the mass amounts of weapons, gangs, and other nationalities with possible terrorist ties.

We have increased our security along our northern border but is it ready for the threats.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/migrant-ship-may-be-headed-for-bc/article1644307/?cmpid=rss1

The southern border:

Mexico has announced that it cannot handle the problem on its own and maybe thinking of just letting the United States deal with it. Does this change their thinking on Arizona’s new immigration Law?

El Diario de Juarez (Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua) 7/19/10
Mexico cannot stop narcotics on its own

Geneva, Switzerland – The President of the Mexican Senate, Carlos Navarrete, confirmed today that his country cannot stop drugs exiting into the United States and the problem needs to be confronted jointly with the United States.

“Mexico needs to quickly make a crucial decision to suspend the bloody confrontations that are happening now and to initiate a bi-lateral agreement with the United States in which the United States completely assumes its responsibilities,” (in the war on drugs), Navarrete said before the Third World Conference of the Heads of Parliaments that commenced on Monday in Geneva.

“Mexico confronts a serious situation like no other in history since the 1910 Mexican Revolution. In just the last three and a half years we have had 25,000 people killed in the struggle against narcotrafficking,” explained Navarrete.

The violence brought by the drug cartels has unleashed a battle for control of the drug routes into the United States that has left 7,000 dead just in 2010, and since 2006, has risen to 24,800 dead despite the deployment of more than 50,000 members of the military in the federal operation against narcotics traffickers.

“It is a struggle that has exhausted the Government and the Armed Forces but has shown no reduction of the consumption of drugs or the availability of drugs to the North American society,” stated Navarrete.

“It is a problem that must be addressed in unison between the United States and Mexico and the drug producing countries. We do not have the means of resolving this problem. The incremental increase in violence weighs heavily upon our nation,” said Navarrete.

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-Alfredo The Brain