Obama, where are you?

Written by Sean McCaffrey on October 30, 2010, 03:40 AM

Since December 2006, more than 28,000 people have been killed in the ongoing and escalating violence associated with the Mexican drug cartels. That violence is increasingly spilling over the border into the United States. What’s more, it’s spreading into our neighborhoods hours north of the border.

One of the latest gruesome killings occurred in Chandler, Arizona, just miles from the home of BanAmnestyNow.com founder/president Sean McCaffrey. The victim was stabbed and beheaded in a manner authorities believe is consistent with the violent assassinations carried out by sicarios, the Spanish word for contract killer.

In a related news story, Sheriff Joe Arpaio noted, “In my jail today we have almost 100 people charged with murder and they're all illegally here. Plus many other violent crimes. If they were not in this country we would not have 18 percent of the people in the jails here that have many violent crimes.”

President Barack Obama has declined or ignored repeated invitations, including those from BanAmnestyNow.com, too visit the Arizona border. As a result of Mr. Obama’s apathy, the man called “Dude” by Jonathan Stewart can’t possibly understand what citizens in border states must contend with.

Or can he? The longer Mr. Obama remains in office, the more our crime rates are coming to resemble those in Mr. Obama’s home town: Chicago. There, drug gangs also run rampant and uncontrolled, with murder rates skyrocketing.

If Congress, the White House and Barack Obama are still surprised that America is rejecting their Washington-driven un-solutions to our problems, they should imagine our surprise to discover that America’s streets have become killing grounds for foreign drug cartels and Washington doesn’t seem to care.