San Diego, CA - September 2001 - New URL: http://walk.to/border

San Diego wildfire burns 100 structures and 10,300 acres in hours. About 4000 illegal aliens camp nightly in San Diego's National Forest.

San Diego wildfire burns 100 structures, 1,400 homes saved. New 2000 census study finds 13 million illegal aliens in the U.S. Gallup poll says 94% of Americans oppose the Mexican amnesty. 5.2 million illegal aliens overwhelm California's electric power grid.* Mexico plans to build four new power plants on California border. U.S. border policy burns San Diego backcountry and Southwest. Islamic terrorist guerrilla groups spotted in northern Mexico. Jobless National Guard soldiers build new U.S. border fence. Globalists want new country in Mexico border areas of U.S. A Mexican drug madness invading the U.S. called crystal-meth. Bush considers "regularizing" (legalizing) all Mexicans in the U.S. Venezuela confirms Foot & Mouth disease in 240 head of cattle. New Mexico wildfire near border evacuates hundreds of homes.

The CDF&F and all the other fire agencies did a superb job of fighting the Viejas wildfire. However, giving politically correct and possibly false information about the most probable cause of this fire - illegal aliens or illegal alien smugglers - and the actual total damage of the wildfire, is both wrong and dangerous, because it gives the public living in the backcountry near the Mexico border a false sense of security.

Now the CDF&F is downgrading the damage of the Viejas wildfire. For example, it has reduced the number of homes destroyed from 16 to 5, and 11 homes are now listed as "family occupied manufactured mobile homes." Manufactured mobil homes, or "trailers," on rural country lots in southern California can easily be worth $75,000 to $150,000, or even more. We believe the fire's total damage was approximately $20 million dollars including all public costs and all private property damage. And we don't understand at all the "50 to 100 abandoned vehicles" listed as wildfire damage.

The facts are: 1) A tremendous risk remains in San Diego county for an illegal alien caused wildfire that is many times the magnitude of the San Diego Viejas wildfire; 2) Illegal aliens often build dangerous campfires for daily cooking, and for warmth at night; 3) Illegal alien smugglers often build dangerous campfires, or use road flares in the tops of agaves and other vegetation, as a signaling device indicating the smuggler's pickup location so the illegals can locate them at night in the darkness; 4) Illegal aliens on foot or alien smugglers on foot sometimes start wildfires near the Mexico border to burn away the nearly impassable brush and vegetation to more easily, and more rapidly, enter the U.S. on foot; and, 5) some U.S. border residents believe, and the evidence of an increasing number of wildfires in the border region suggests, that illegal aliens or alien smugglers may be sometimes intentionally starting wildfires to intimidate border residents into moving away or abandoning their border property.

Discarded cigarettes rarely start wildfires at 4:20 am because fuel moisture and humidity are too high at this time of the day. The San Diego Viejas wildfire is more likely the result of an illegal aliens' campfire or an alien smugglers' signal fire, and much less likely the result of discarded smoking material near the Interstate 8 highway viewpoint pulloff. This highway viewpoint pulloff is the reported origin of the 16 sq. mile wildfire. The viewpoint pulloff location is a known and regularly used illegal alien pickup point, and "load vehicles" (1) are frequently parked here waiting for groups of illegal aliens in the early morning hours between 1 am and 5 am (the fire started at 4:20 am). Three major illegal alien trails (Sweetwater River, Horsethief Canyon, and Pine Creek) and more than one dozen minor illegal alien trails from Mexico terminate here.

In San Diego county all campfires are illegal (ground fires not in a metal container) without a special burning permit and onsite fire crew supervision from the CDF&F (CA Department of Forestry & Fire) on state land, or the USFS (U.S. Forest Service) on federal land. This mandatory permit and fire crew supervision is due to the extreme year-around fire hazard in southern California. An early estimate (2) of this fire's cost is approximately $20 million dollars including ALL public and private property damage. Illegal alien-caused wildfires may cost San Diego and California residents over $1 billion dollars (6) annually. People from other areas of the U.S., Mexico, and Latin America do not understand or realize the extreme year-around fire danger in Southern California.

"Forest Service crews routinely discover smoldering campfires along [illegal alien] trails and pick-up points, said Bill Molumby, [USFS] battalion chief for the Descanso District. The illegal fires, built in dense brush that hasn't burned since 1970, are ticking time bombs. 'When the wind picks up, it's like Russian roulette,' Molumby said."(3)

San Diego county supervisor Diane Jacob, "...There have been 322 fires sparked by undocumented immigrant campfires so far this year (1996) along the East County's border region, compared with 24 fires reported in 1994 before Operation Gatekeeper..." (4) "The costs of such fires, added to those of medical costs for immigrants who are injured and treated, by law, in local hospitals, is $228 million, she says." (5)  This is an 1,342% increase in dangerous wildfires along the 66 miles of U.S.- Mexico border in San Diego county in just two years time from 1994 when Operation Gatekeeper began pushing illegal aliens inland.

"Ranchers must understand that people entering the U.S. illegally have universal rights that we must respect."- David Gonzalez, U.S. Border Patrol (quote from CNN).

Satellite view of origin of fire Environmental satellite view CNN San Diego fire photo #1 CNN San Diego fire photo #2

Topo map of origin of fire GEOS satellite view of fire Terraserver satellite view CNN San Diego fire slides

Illegal immigration: Wages are approximately 12 to 15 times greater in the U.S. than in Mexico depending on the value of the Mexican peso, therefore illegal immigration will continue. The Mexican minimum wage is about $0.47 cents per hour in U.S. denomination as of 01 April 2001 ($0.37 cents per hour in the rural areas, 75% of Mexico), and the U.S. minimum wage is $5.75 per hour in California. In other words a Mexican citizen might make as much working one year in the U.S. as he would make working for 15 years in Mexico! And as little as $1.00 a day in earnings is attractive to most rural Mexicans, who are the vast majority of illegal aliens migrating to the U.S. today. Citizens of the U.S. find these facts difficult to understand.

The U.S. Selective Service System: All male U.S. citizens, and all male illegal alien non-citizens upon entry into the United States, who are 18 through 25 must register with the Selective Service System (draft board). If you do not register, you can be prosecuted for a felony and fined up to $250,000 and/or be put in jail for up to five years. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (I&NS) makes registration with the Selective Service a condition for U.S. citizenship if you first arrived in the U.S. before your 26th birthday. See the Selective Service System chart of all males who must register. Abajo en Espanol.

Illegal drugs: Actually there is no "drug war." The term "war" is an incorrect definition and really shouldn't be used, but there is an unlimited number of winnable battles against lawbreaking, drug use, crime, and criminals. The "drug war" is as unwinnable as would be a "war" declared against evil. Americans continue to use illegal drugs, therefore drug smuggling across the Mexico border will continue. Some citizens of all countries refuse to obey U.S. immigration, employment, and drug laws, therefore immigration crimes, unlawful employment crimes, and drug crimes will continue. Experts estimate 50% to 75% of all drugs in the U.S.A. come across the Mexican border.

"Approximately two-thirds of the cocaine available in the United States comes over the U.S.- Mexico border... from the 1930s to the 1960s, Mexico supplied as much as 95 percent of the marijuana consumed in the U.S. market. During the 1970s, when the Mexican Government sprayed its marijuana fields with paraquat, a herbicide, Colombia became the dominant producer for the U.S. market. With the end of the paraquat program, Mexico eventually regained its dominance in the U.S. market..." - Traffickers from Mexico, U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, July 2001. "90 percent of the meth (methamphetamine) manufactured in this country is manufactured by Mexican national (Mexican non-U.S citizen) drug organizations,"- Ron Gravitt, California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement's clandestine lab unit chief, Oct 2000, Sacramento Bee Special Report. "Methamphetamine cases today account for 80% of the nation's police departments' drug investigations."- DEA Report 1996.

Drug legalization: Even if drugs are completely legalized, drug smuggling and human smuggling will continue across the U.S.- Mexico border. The U.S. government and U.S. pharmaceutical companies can not produce or distribute cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamine, LSD, PCP, heroine, hashish, marijuana, etc., as inexpensively as can narco cartels using peasant labor in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Europe, Asia, India, China, etc. Smuggling organizations use illegal aliens as "mules" to smuggle drugs into the U.S.A., as drug dealers in the U.S.A., and as bank and money exchange "smerfs" to electronically transfer drug profits out of the U.S.A.

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Venezuela confirms Foot & Mouth in 240 cattle.

New Mexico wildfire evacuates hundreds of homes.

Islamic terrorist guerrilla groups in northern Mexico.

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Mexican army seizes record 30 tons of marijuana.

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Mexico trip: In March 2001, we traveled to the Mexican states of Baja Sur California, Sinaloa, and Jalisco. Jalisco is the number one source state of Mexican illegal immigration to the U.S. There is a noticeable absence of young people in the rural villages. In fact, some appeared to be almost deserted. The Mexican children were friendly, the older people somewhat reserved, and both readily accepted U.S. dollars. The primary school in Sinaloa we visited was teaching classes in English. The younger children we talked with spoke English well. We visited a number of private businesses: a brick factory, a glass factory, a furniture factory, a pottery factory, and others. Mexico is a beautiful country, however we observed land, water, and air pollution in many areas. Researchers at the University of Zacatecas, another of Mexico's 31 states, estimate that about 600,000 Zacatecan citizens now live in the United States, or about half the state's population of 1.2 million. Mexico's President Vicente Fox has estimated 50 million Mexicans will soon live in the U.S., while researchers at Northeastern University in Boston estimate that about 13 million illegal aliens now reside in the U.S. In July 2000, an Hispanic resident of Los Angeles, CA, was elected as Congressman to the Mexican National Congress in Mexico City, and an illegal alien "labor contractor" (coyote) resident of Sacramento, CA, was elected mayor of Jerez, Mexico, in June 2001.

Our politically incorrect thoughts for you to ponder this month:

1) How much electricity are 5.2 million illegal aliens in California using? California has about 40% of the illegal alien population in the U.S. according to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

2) Would California have electricity blackouts and a power shortage if all illegal aliens were deported? The Northeastern University study indicates 13 million illegal aliens may now be in the U.S. and the INS says about 40% are in California, therefore 15.3% or 5.2 million of California's 33.9 million people may be here illegally. Interestingly, the power shortage in California is between 15% and 20%. New York just announced a power shortage as well in August 2001. Dominicans make up an estimated 800,000 of New York's 8 million people. Nearly three-fourths of the Dominicans in New York City are not U.S. citizens, said Luis Eludis Perez, the Dominican consul in New York.

3) How many wildfires are started in California and the Southwest as illegal aliens traverse the most remote and pristine wilderness remaining in the U.S.? Why must we purchase expensive special use permits to enter these areas and then fear for our personal safety and the safety of our unattended vehicles while illegal aliens and alien smugglers are allowed to build prohibited campfires, hike, camp, live, and backpack in these same areas? How much is this environmental and criminal damage costing U.S. taxpayers?

4) Why is the Sierra Club supporting an immigration policy that is destroying the environment of California and Mexico? I am a former Sierra Club members who quit this organization after less than one year upon realizing that it is pro-illegal immigration, pro-private property land-grabbing in the name of endangered species and wetlands, and that the membership is mostly leftist socialists.

5) If having millions of illegal aliens employed in the U.S. makes things cost less, then why does everything cost more in California? California has far more illegal aliens than any other state, therefore California's goods and services should cost less. Why are prices so much higher in states like California and New York that have large illegal alien populations?

6) Why is no one else asking these questions? Especially our elected officials and policy makers? Have we allowed so many illegal aliens into the U.S. that our politicians know it is political suicide to speak up?

U.S. Citizen
San Diego, CA
01 Sept 2001
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*I've found no article from any news source discussing this legitimate topic. An increasing population has the highest correlation to an increasing electrical power demand.

Del Sistema Selectivo del Servicio de los E.E.U.U.: Todos los ciudadanos de los E.E.U.U. del varón, y todos los no-ciudadanos extranjeros ilegales masculinos sobre la entrada en los Estados Unidos, que son 18 a 25 deben colocarse con el Sistema Selectivo del Servicio (consejo del conscripción). Si usted no se coloca, usted puede ser procesado para un crimen y hasta $250.000 (dolares E.E.U.U.) multados y/o ser puesto en la cárcel por hasta cinco años. El registro de las marcas del Servicio de la Inmigración y de la Naturalización de los E.E.U.U. (I&NS, la migra) con el Servicio Selectivo una condición para la ciudadanía de los E.E.U.U. si usted primero llegó en los E.E.U.U. antes de su vigésimo sexto cumpleaños. Vea la carta Selectiva del Sistema del Servicio de todos los varones que deban colocarse.

The author is a certified forest firefighter for both the California Department of Forestry (CDF&F) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and a graduate of the state of California CDF&F Forest Firefighting Academy and of the State of California Fire Marshal's program at Miramar college in San Diego. He is also an U.S. Forest Service (USFS) federal wilderness area volunteer Wilderness Ranger. The duties at both agencies included the operation of weather stations measuring humidity, measuring wind direction and wind speed, calculating and recording fuel moisture, and assisting in arson investigations, as well as the primary duty of wildland fire suppression. He has worked at forest fire stations and headquarters in San Diego county and throughout California for four years, and has a very high regard for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and its personnel. The duties as a U.S. Forest Service volunteer Wilderness Ranger included patrolling by vehicle, foot, and horseback the Hauser Mountain federal Wilderness Area, the Pine Creek federal Wilderness Area, and the Cleveland National Forest on the Mexican border east of San Diego, California. He was in charge of both the foot patrol and the mounted Wilderness Ranger patrol groups, and was an elected board member of the San Diego Cleveland National Forest volunteer association (LMVA). He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, and has completed post graduate studies at two San Diego colleges. He has 6 years service in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Army Reserve, with an Honorable Discharge, and a Cold War Recognition Certificate from the U.S. Secretary of Defense.

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