Exclusive: Federal Battle Waged Against ArizonaMaj. Gen. Paul Vallely, US Army (Ret)
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Exclusive: Federal Battle Waged Against ArizonaMaj. Gen. Paul Vallely, US Army (Ret)
But Where is the Federal Battle Across the Southern Border?
Like many of you, I have been tracking and watching the Obama Administration and Attorney General Eric Holder file a suit against the Arizona Law which reinforces the Federal Law on Immigration. We hear today that if the Federal Government is not successful on the first suit that they (the Government) will file a follow-up suit to get their dictatorial way. The Feds are using the rationale of human rights infringements and “racial profilingâ€. Give me a break, please! YES, we the people of the United States by a clear majority are profiling. Let me be blunt and to the point. We are profiling……..we are profiling illegal invaders and aliens that are coming across our borders. We do not care about their ethnicity and their color. We do care about their background, where they are coming from and for what reason they are transiting our borders illegally. Regardless of the many claims of groups today, the territorial boundaries are set in law.
The concerns and anxiety of Americans, particularly in the Border States have grown significantly in the past year. Governor Jan Brewer has had to take extraordinary legislative action to help rectify the situation and we applaud her and others in Arizona for their initiative and courage. Changes in law enforcement operations have forced smugglers of drugs and illegal aliens into ever more isolated areas, increasing the number of deaths and the level of violence to a point where even the most hardened enforcement officials are alarmed.
It is now time to enforce the rule-of-law and take the battle to the invaders and not Arizona and our other border states which many legal scholars believe is an infringement on the 11th Amendment. The fact is that America and its citizens are in danger daily. Obama, Holder and certain Members of Congress are fighting the wrong battle and need to stop blaming others; instead they should enforce the laws already on the books. Let us wake up, America. If our Federal Government will not execute an operational plan to secure our southern borders then the States and the people must do it. However, let me provide an executable plan of operations for the Federal Government to undertake with resolve and commitment to protect and secure the American people.
I do not have to take the time in this article to explain to the readers the threat and the problems on and across our southern borders of California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas as it is on the news every day. You would have to live in a perpetual and virtual cave not to know the situation. We have a war of gigantic proportions…illegal invasions, treacherous drug cartels, gangs, human trafficking, drugs (is there not a war on drugs???), smuggling, kidnappings, and corruption of officials on both sides of the borders. If I were the Commander-in-Chief, I would be on a war-footing and I would have my military commanders planning and executing a strategy that will swiftly defeat and decisively excise these cancerous enemies.
The plan is basic and with advanced unconventional/conventional war planning. I would at the outset, announce a twenty (20) kilometer “No Go†zone on the Mexican side of the border. If you remember, we established two “no fly†zones in Northern and Southern Iraq. With the use of super intelligence, we would identify the operational locations of the drug cartels, close off lines of transit, stop human trafficking, identify enablers within the zone and cut off all sources of communications.
That is the real battle area. The battle area is not on our side of the border and against our states and elected officials like Jan Brewer that are trying to uphold the law. The mission in the “no go†zone is to neutralize and eliminate any criminal or terrorist activity directed and planned against the United States and its citizen. National Security is the foremost responsibility of the Commander-in-Chief that encompasses our borders and homes.
This plan combines the best use of our forces that will encompass intelligence, targeting, structural organization of our forces to accomplish the mission, base operations as well as offensive and defensive operations. First, we must organize three (3) Border Task Force Groups (BTFGs) and position them in three operational bases, one in Texas, one in Arizona and one in Southern California. We have existing bases in those states that can be used. There is no requirement to create any new bases. The BTFGs will be organized based on joint task forces of Special Ops, Army, Air Force and Navy. Selected units and personal will be relocated and moved to these designated bases. Maximum use must be made of our Special Operators, Delta Force, Special Forces, Seals, AF Special Ops, Rangers, Marine Recon and Special Ops Air Assets and augmented by Active Force regular Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force.
There will be approximately 5,000 warriors assigned to each BTFG. The organization will be commanded by a Two Star “Warrior†and each of the three BTFGs will be commanded by Brigadier General. The mission for the Command will be to target and conduct offensive and defensive operations on the Mexican side of the border. National Guard, Border Patrol, DEA, and local sheriffs units will conduct border security operations on the United States side of the border. This initiative does not violate any existing Posse Comitatus laws.
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Navy, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States. The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act.
The National Guard will be the asset of the State Governors to be used as required to augment the Active Force BTFGs operations on the US side of the border. We must the remove the incompetent Homeland Security Department hierarchy from this action completely – its war not a law enforcement operation across the border. The States and the local Sheriffs will have their missions on the US side of the border in law enforcement, worker identification and placement, illegal invader apprehension and deportation working with ICE and Border Patrol.
The number of arrests made by Border Patrol agents is one of the few reliable measurements of the rising influx. That number dropped right after 9/11, but it has since been climbing. In fact, the cost of protecting the nation’s borders has increased 58 percent since 9/11, but in three of the four years since the attacks, the number of people nabbed by the Border Patrol still increased. In the fiscal year that ended in September, the Border Patrol reported 1.19 million arrests, compared with 932,000 in fiscal year 2003. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has grown from 8.4 million in 2000 to 15 million today.
The political ferment over ‘illegals’ has never been greater. 78 percent of Americans think and know that the government is not doing enough to control our borders; talk shows bristle with demands for action. Additionally, Global jihad and jihadis are a major threat as they eye the southern border as a path of least resistance to strike inside the United States. Announced last week was a specific intelligent report of Iran proxy, Hezbollah, now setting up bases of operation in Mexico near the border and are now crossing our Southern Border.
America…We must act NOW for the welfare and security of our precious nation and the safety of our citizens everywhere…
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Paul E. Vallely, Major General (USA/Ret.) is an author, military strategist and Chairman of Stand Up America and Save Our Democracy Projects. Kerry Patton is the Director of Stand Up America.
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