A gubmint completely abdicates its responsibilities?

In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now.

“We’re in the eye of the storm,” Phoenix Police Chief Andy Anderson told ABC News of the violent crimes and ruthless tactics spurred by Mexico’s drug cartels that have expanded business across the border. “If it doesn’t stop here, if we’re not able to fix it here and get it turned around, it will go across the nation,” he said.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown warned that as the U.S. government focuses so intently on Islamic extremist groups, other types of terrorists — those involved with the same kidnappings, extortion and drug cartels that are sweeping Phoenix — are overlooked.

As I wrote two years ago

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It really is past time for us to lance the boil on our ass that is Mexico and the spreading corruption of Mexican citizens squatting unlawfully on American soil. Ship’em home and let them sort out the rathole they themselves have allowed and created. We need Mexicans fixing America like we need, well, Mexico. Unless you consider Mexico to be some sort of political and economic success story? Why then would these folks who have so poorly managed their own land suddenly become so capable here?

I wrote that two years ago, it could have been written twenty years ago. How many more Americans must die before we either force our gubmint to shut our border down or simply do it ourselves?

H/T Hot Air

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