Dear Mr. Romney: When You Discuss Foreign Policy With Himself, You Might Mention That Drug Smugglers Are Driving Across The Arizona Border In Broad Daylight

Just sayin'...

Just ask rancher John Ladd of Arizona.

His San Jose Ranch sits right on the Arizona-Mexico line, ten and a half miles of land stretching from the town of Naco west toward the San Pedro River.  Border Patrol has three camera towers on his property, an eye-in-the-sky Cyclops, and sensors hidden in the desert shrubs that activate when smugglers pass.  A pedestrian fence (pictured below) blocks the entire ten and a half miles.
None of these security measures have worked.

Since the end of February, Ladd has had at least nine drug drive-throughs across his land involving 21 trucks.  The smugglers cut the mesh border fence and pull it down, then ramp over the vehicle barrier just inside it.  In most cases they tack-weld the fence back up and brush out tracks to disguise the incursion.

Eight of these episodes occurred in broad daylight, and in two of them the smugglers passed within 50 feet of a camera tower.

The chaos building south of our border, and increasingly spilling over into the heartland of the US, is most definitely a foreign-policy issue, as well as a domestic issue.

Obama's back-door amnesty by executive order this summer, giving the 'get-out-of-jail-free' card to hundreds of thousands of illegals only worsens the situation. Even in OS's county, two days' drive from the border, illegals have been camped here for years, awaiting the Next Amnesty.

This only creates more chaos, giving incentive to flout the law, breaking down civil society.

Which, after all, is the goal of the present administration.

Chaos creates opportunity.