Yesterday our Governor signed Senate Bill 1070. A bill that will finally make it a crime to be here illegally. Since then Arizona has been in the limelight and under attack by many across this Nation and in this State. Arizona taxpayers have borne the burden of paying for this criminal activity of illegal aliens for too many years, and I am glad to see we are finally moving in the right direction to correct a problem that the federal government refused to fix.
While there are many, including myself and the Governor, who support S.B. 1070, there are many who do not. At a forum yesterday morning I watched in shock and horror as my opponent called Arizona the ‘laughing stock of our Nation’, and railed on how this bill was ‘racist’ and brought racism to all ‘dark skinned people’.
Apparently securing our border and taking a stand against criminals apparently isn’t that popular to the other side.
Today I spent the day at the border with Smart Girl Politics to help clean up the trash caused by illegals crossing into this country. What we discovered was more than I had ever anticipated.
We discovered a path way that the illegals use approximately 50 feet from the highway and approximately 1/2 mile from the border fence.
We decided to follow the path toward the fence that separated Mexico from Arizona.
We found clothes, water bottles from Mexico, baby bottles, diapers, but the most disturbing was the pink hair brush with under garmets and other apparel. My first thought, as a mother with a 13 year old daughter, was this could be a young girl being smuggled into this Country to be sold, used, and abused for a profit.
We traveled all the way to the border fence using the same path that the illegals use and found more clothing, including more children’s clothing, back packs, overnight bags filled with clothes and other items. Walking near the fence I thought I’d see holes that illegals had climbed through, perhaps ladders that many have claimed, but that’s not what I found at all. Instead what I found was steal that had been welded to the fence (on both sides) to allow access from Mexico and into Mexico.
And this is how easy it is to enter Arizona.
So while my opponent rants about how “insensitive” Republicans are to the criminals in our state, I salute the legislature and the governor. This bill will be the turning point in our battle against illegal immigrants and against crime. I am for anyone who wants to enter this Country legally, but illegally is placing this State further into a deficit we just can’t afford.
While some candidates are talking about the problem, I’m actually out there seeing it first hand.
Terri Proud
