Along the Arizona border with Mexico, illegal immigration is a constant and growing problem. That is why, upon a visit to a portion of the border near Yuma, Ariz., Congressman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, was shocked to find the equivalent of a welcome sign for immigrants to the United States.
"No fence on this part of the border," Chaffetz said on Twitter. However, the startling component to the tweet was a photograph of a shiny yellow handrail and rudimentary stairs leading up into America.
Just last week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tweeted a similarly shocking statement that when he and a bipartisan crew of Senators visited the border between Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Sonora. A woman climbed over the fence in full view of the legislators and their entourage. The story was covered in full by the Latin Times.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz's tweet is just another example of the abundance of missing or misstated facts in the border control controversy. While many say that the border is secure as is, with fencing in some places and endless parched desert and mountains forming a natural immigration deterrent elsewhere, under the constant watch of U.S. Border Patrol agents, there are increasingly regular illustrations of how far the United States has yet to go to secure its borders. Rep. Chaffetz later noted that a few miles from the surprisingly welcoming gateway to Arizona, nine Romanians were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol for attempting to illegally enter the United States.
"This is the USA-Mexico border," Chaffetz tweeted incredulously.
A recent caller to the Mark Levin radio program illustrated one of the major controversies surrounding the issue of the porosity of the Mexican border. The man, an Irish citizen, had allegedly, like many, been trying to gain lawful access to America and become an American citizen.
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