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Doug Ducey. “National Guard Call-up Is Needed and Welcome.” USA Today. EBSCOhost, login.ezp.mesacc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=J0E024178997318&site=ehost-live. Accessed 27 July 2019.

National Guard call-up is needed and welcome

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The most fundamental responsibility of government is to protect its citizens. This is an issue for all governors, but it has added meaning and complexity for border governors.

For those living with the consequences of Washington's failures, border security isn't a political issue, it's a personal one. I've grieved with the widow of a rancher slain by an illegal immigrant and with the family members of agent Brian Terry, who was gunned down by cartel members 10 miles north of the Arizona-Mexico border. I've spent time with parents whose children's lives were ruined by the drugs smuggled across our border.

The majority of illegal drugs in this country come through our southern border. If you know someone impacted by drug addiction, there's a good chance their last "hit" came from drugs that flowed through Arizona.

For years, Americans, particularly in border states such as Arizona, have been calling on the federal government to secure our border.

It is frustrating to hear the rhetoric from the talking heads on cable news on this issue. Despite what some may say, our southern border is not secure. That is the truth, plain and simple.

That is why I am grateful for this administration's actions to address border security. The announcement by President Trump to call up the National Guard to support the mission of the Border Patrol is needed and welcomed.

Unfortunately, there are those who like to play politics with the issue. Those of us on the border don't have that luxury. Instead, while the politicos and pundits are busy shouting at each other, we are addressing the challenges of managing a state on the border.

We're working to save lives threatened by the hands of cartel members or by drug addiction -- and the lives of those trying to cross Arizona's unforgiving desert. States such as Arizona have stepped up when Washington has failed and spent tens of millions of our state's taxpayer dollars to supplement the great work of an understaffed Customs and Border Protection.

But with a border nearly 373 miles -- longer than the entire length of Pennsylvania -- we can't do this on our own.

Doug Ducey is governor of Arizona.

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Dennis Wagner. “U.S., Mexico Join Forces to Stem Tide of Illegal Crossings.” USA Today. EBSCOhost, login.ezp.mesacc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=J0E238617439211&site=ehost-live. Accessed 27 July 2019.

U.S., Mexico join forces to stem tide of illegal crossings

Alliance has curbed both undocumented workers and drugs

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TUCSON -- A little-known coalition of U.S. and Mexican police agencies has played a major part in cracking down on smuggling and illegal immigration along the Arizona-Mexico border, top Homeland Security officials say.

The joint operation among the U.S. Border Patrol, Mexican federal police and about 60 U.S. state, federal, tribal and local police agencies has had dramatic success making drug seizures and arresting undocumented immigrants, says Alan Bersin, director of Customs and Border Protection.

Since the Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats launched quietly in September 2009 with coordinated training, intelligence-sharing and patrols, the program has resulted in the arrests of 270,000 illegal border crossers, the seizure of 1.6 million pounds of marijuana and the recovery of $13 million in cash in the border's Tucson sector.

The area became a funnel point when officials clamped down in other states along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Bersin said that as the program continues, it will be another factor in the efforts to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers into the United States.

Bersin said this alliance is unique because it includes cooperative policing from the Mexican side.

David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, said collaborating more closely with Mexico to battle drug trafficking and human smuggling represents a welcome shift in the way the United States handles border issues.

"The traditional U.S. approach has been one that focuses on unilateral solutions," he said. "The result is you can't do much from one side of the border."

Although working more closely with Mexican law enforcement officials will help the U.S. tackle drug trafficking and human smuggling, those problems can't be solved through cross-border enforcement alone.

More emphasis has to be put on reducing drug consumption in the U.S. and creating jobs in Mexico, Shirk said.

On Tuesday, Bersin said the alliance is part of an overall campaign to plug the last corridor for contraband and illegal immigration. He predicted that the cartels "will make a stand here to try to preserve their smuggling routes."

Bersin said the goal of the alliance and other initiatives is to manage the border and make it safe.

"Border safety and security does not mean sealing the border to a point where not one single illegal alien comes across," he said. "This is perfection to which we do not aspire."

Wagner also reports for The Arizona Republic.

Contributing: Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic.

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Action on the border

A by-the-numbers look at efforts to patrol the U.S.-Mexican border:

20,700

Border Patrol agents today, more than double the number in 2004.

1,200

National Guard troops deployed on border assignments.

779,000

Illegal immigrants that Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed in fiscal years 2009 and 2010, more than half of them convicted criminals.

16%

Increase in border drug seizures. Weapons seizures rose 28% and illicit-currency seizures were up 35% in fiscal 2009 and 2010.

3,500

Employers suspected of hiring illegal immigrants since January 2009 that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has audited; 235 businesses were debarred (prohibited from receiving federal contracts).

Source: Department of Homeland Security

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Cattan, Nacha. “Arizona Immigration Law: Will It Hurt Mexico’s Drug War, as US Lawsuit Says?” Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2010, p. N.PAG. EBSCOhost, login.ezp.mesacc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=51984173&site=ehost-live.

Arizona immigration law: Will it hurt Mexico's drug war, as US lawsuit says?

Mexico's government applauded an Obama administration lawsuit brought Tuesday against the Arizona immigration law. Some analysts here agree with the lawsuit that argues the Arizona law undermines the drug war. But others say the suit diverts attention away from a more important goal for most Mexicans: US immigration reform.

"Mexico expresses its approval of the United States government decision to try and prevent the SB 1070 law from taking effect," said President Felipe Calderon's government, which has been highly vocal in opposing the Arizona law.

Filed by the US Justice Department in a federal district court in Arizona, the lawsuit demonstrates President Barack Obama's commitment to civil and human rights, Mexico's Senate Foreign Affairs Committee said Tuesday.

The Arizona law makes it a crime to be an illegal immigrant in the state. It also requires police to determine the immigration status of a person stopped for other infractions when there is "reasonable suspicion" the person is an undocumented migrant.

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While immigrant and human rights groups also expressed content with the Justice Department's case against Arizona, some ordinary Mexicans and academics were not enamored. They saw the suit as mere pre-election maneuvering for the Hispanic vote while a more politically costly immigration reform stalls indefinitely.

"Immigration is not one of [Obama]'s priorities next to the recession or the elections," says Pedro Isnardo, presidential policy analyst at the UNAM university in Mexico City. "Although he is not minimizing immigration he is now giving it legal attention because he knows he doesn't have greater influence in other realms."

The lawsuit comes on the heels of Obama's urgent request to Congress last week to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Some security experts in Mexico also said that an argument in the federal lawsuit claiming the Arizona law will undermine the drug war by diverting resources away from targeting "drug smuggling and gang activity" misses the point.

"The priority has always been going after big [criminal] groups. But without discussing prevention, the [drug] problem will continue for years to come," says Jose Maria Ramos, public security expert at the College of the Northern Border in Tijuana (COLEF).

The lawsuit's argument that a blanket immigration law hurts the fight against traffickers makes sense to other analysts, however.

"It's easy to understand the legitimate concerns of people in Arizona about border security, but the measure actually makes the border far less secure," says Andrew Selee, director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.

It will "create fear and distrust of authorities in the minds of legal foreign nationals and good citizens with illegal status in Arizona who might be very useful in helping to stop the traffic of illegal drugs through their contacts in foreigner networks," says Malcolm Beith, a freelance journalist and author of a forthcoming book on the drug war, "The Last Narco."

The suit also argues that only the federal government, and not a "patchwork" of local entities, can set immigration policy – an apparent reference to other states looking to pass similar laws. In addition, the U.S. government says that the law will cause legal immigrants and visitors to be harassed, and requests an injunction to stop the law from taking effect July 29.

Mexico has strongly condemned the law, filing an amicus brief last month in a lawsuit brought by major civil rights groups. Also in June, governors of Mexican border states said they would not attend this year's Border Governors Conference unless it was moved from the scheduled location in Arizona. The boycott led Gov. Jan Brewer last week to cancel the September meeting, which has reportedly caused a split among US governors over whether to hold the conference in another state.

For some Mexicans, the US lawsuit is not a defense of civil rights, but merely a step the Obama administration is taking to restrain a state that is overstepping its authority.

"It's not good or bad; it's what they should be doing," said Francisco Adrian Martinez, a 24-year-old engineering student in Mexico City.

IN PICTURES: The US/Mexico border