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Everyone knows there’s been a bit of contention and concern surrounding the Mexico/Arizona border, but did you know there’s great fun to be had on some of the border towns in the area? If you live in Arizona or even New Mexico, pack up the kids, set the ADT new mexico and get out to the border to see the sights!
Douglas, Arizona – this border town is open 24 More on Great Arizona Border Towns

Illegal migrants, gunrunners, drug smugglers, the murder of American citizens and incursions by the Mexican army, these are all well documented happenings along the Arizona-Mexico border that the federal government chooses to ignore or pretend is not a problem.

Americans are crying out not just in Arizona, but across the nation for those whom we have given consent to govern over us to do something, anything, about the continued flood of illegal migrants that amounts to a literal invasion. Yet the Federal government refuses to do its constitutionally mandated duty to secure the border.

So Arizona did More on Arizona And Mexico Border Promises Trouble

The Arizona and Mexico Border is one of the most heated places across the globe due to the frequency illegal migrations as an active area for human trafficking or drug smuggling. In this regard, the protection of the citizens of both Arizona and Mexico is put on high alert because of criminals fleeing to the other side with dangerous firearms and speeding vehicles.

The federal government has taken no neglect with this problem and is continuing to do its best to avoid any injuries or casualties from More on Arizona And Mexico Border Work On Dangers To Citizens

Arizona has become a front on the war between Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. and Mexican Governments; yet it is a neglected front. Although the U.S. has made more of an effort to police the borders, those efforts have come nowhere close to matching the escalation in drug smuggling or human trafficking of the past few years.
A fight between the federal government and the Arizona state government over border protection and illegal More on Arizona And Mexico Border On The Brink Of Disaster

First, I still believe America is the great melting pot. I find it interesting that only a short 200-300 years ago everyone that’s not a Native American were coming into the country at their own free will. Now, we have created a fenced border to keep people out that are seeking the same opportunities as our own forefathers. Currently we do have a global economic crisis on our hands, but imagine the impoverished condition that folks must More on Problems On The Arizona And Mexico Border

Arizona has gotten stricter with their border issues, but is it doing any good? Some question if the immigration law is doing any good. Even with the knowledge that they will immediately be sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, illegal immigrants are still coming in like wildfire. Crime rates have sky rocketed, people are afraid to leave their homes at night, what is going to be done about this? Arizona has the strictest border laws in the United States and yet they still More on Border Issues Still A Problem For Arizona And Mexico

Things haven’t been the best for the border between Arizona and Mexico. In fact, over the past 200 years things have been very bloody especially in the early 1800′s. Times have changed and so have the way things work. Arizona’s state government is intent on breaking down illegal immigration and eliminating the drug problem. Now it looks like Mexico wants to join in on the action.

In Nogales, Arizona, both US Border Patrol and Mexican federal police are training together. That is right. It is More on Friction Between Arizona And Mexico Border

The Federal Government has been reporting that the Arizona border with Mexico is “more secure than ever,” but in a release issued by KPHO (channel 5) television station in Phoenix it was also reported that “authorities in Pinal County dispute” this assertion.The television station reported that “in a release sent to media outlets Wednesday, Pinal County spokesman Tim Gaffney said that “Director of Homeland Security Janet Napaolitano’s statements that crimes related to immigration and drug smuggling issues are down is just not true.”And if one simply takes a look at the numbers associated with border crime over the years it seems that the Federal “sugar coating” might in fact be just that.As an example, following are the statistics of pounds of marijuana seized over the past for years:

• 2007: 28,903 pounds
• 2008: 19,619 pounds
• 2009: 44:963 pounds
• 2010: 44,8819 pounds

As the television station’s article pointed out, this demonstrates a “dramatic increase.”And while the numbers were not released specific to violent crimes (including two officer involved shootings; the execution of a cartel member in Casa Grande, Arizona; the killing of two men in Vekol Valley; a man who was kidnapped in Phoenix and because he was unable to post the ransom demand was shot twice in Vekol Valley; or a victim who was stabbed in Casa Grande as part of a “Cartel Hit”), the following documented number of calls to the U.S. Border Patrol should underscore the overall increase in border crime: More on He Said: She Said

If you’re adventurous and want to really get up-close-and-personal to the Mexican/Arizona connection, then you might consider a Great Train Escape that leaves from Tucson and explores Mexico’s Copper Canyon (four times the size of the Grand Canyon). The nine day/eight night trip uses train tracks that climb from sea level to almost 8,000 feet, crosses some of the highest bridges in the world, and passes through 87 tunnels as it explores More on Experience the Mexico/Arizona Connection in Style

Phoenix could not have been settled as it was to become the focus of Arizona that it is today without the help of some early visionaries.John Y. T. Smith, a former member of the California Volunteers, arrived at Fort McDowell in the spring of 1866 and was contracted to supply hay for the soldiers’ horses and mules. Smith hired Hispanic laborers who had settled near the fort to harvest wild hay on the banks of the Salt River.In short order a steady stream of Hispanic settlers immediately began arriving in the valley. Some were former residents of Tucson and Tubac and they were joined by Sonoran immigrants from the Altar Valley who were weary of the political skirmishes and Apache raids that plagued northern Sonora. They grew to comprise more than More on The 1800′s Hispanic Settlement of Phoenix