The Mexican drug war has spilled out over the border in the Southwest and has helped precipitate the new immigration law that just was signed into law in Arizona.

Washington activists can cry out about the unfairness of the law all they want, but until the President and his Administration take seriously the threat posed by the Mexican drug gangs, the people of Arizona will have no choice but to take extreme measures.

70 percent of the people of Arizona support the law just enacted.  That tells you something right there.

Both Arizona and New Mexico were in the top eight most violent states in the union last year.  Most of that can be attributed to the fact that the drug war has spilled out over the border.

I was listening to NPR (the voice of communism as my friends used to call it) and the story I heard was chilling.  The drug gangs now control the illegal passage ways into the United States, and if someone wants to come to America to find their version of the American dream, they can come illegally, which is very unlikely (given the cost and the time involved) or they can cut a deal with the drug lords.  Most cut a deal with the drug lords, and they become a mule for illegal narcotics.  Read more...