“We decry hostility and discrimination towards immigrants as antithetical to the traditions and interests of the country. At the same time, we disagree with those who would label efforts to control immigration as being inherently anti-immigrant. Rather, it is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”
Few people know the origins of political, economic, and societal dégringolade that is decimating today’s America. Not that all bad that is happening to our country these days can be ascribed to a single event, but among major causes that sent our country into a nosedive, the 1965 Amendments to Immigration and Naturalization Act, also known as 1965 INA, stick out conspicuously.
The 1965 INA established the basic structure of today’s immigration law. According to its advocates, it was intended “only” to end discrimination. What it did actually accomplish was a de facto establishment of sweeping anti-discrimination, that is, discrimination against the majority of Americans, in the pre-1965 sense of this word, by all those, within the U.S. and outside, who were allegedly the subjects of discrimination in America before the 1965 INA was enacted into the law. Continue reading
In May of 1986, apprehensions of illegal aliens in Tucson Sector totaled over 8,000 which was up 42 percent from 1985.The records indicated that there were more arrests in the month of May than any period of time logged. Deaths were always a problem in the deserts of southern Arizona which included the vast Tohono Oodam Indian Nation. A newly formed Special Tracking and Rescue Team (STAR) was formed June 25, 1986 with nine volunteers. All agents were trained in first aid, signcutting, tracking skills, rappelling from helicopters, desert survival and extraction of injured people.The unit Commander was Thomas Wacker, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent. I was the official medic for this outstanding team of agents. Yuma, Arizona Sector had their own desert rescue teams in place to contend with the large numbers of illegal aliens entering the country without inspection in 1986. 
