Fight to control corridors on Arizona border turns violent......

   Out of today's newspaper this is just another article that caught my attention....

     Altar, Mexico - "This village on the edge of the Sonoran Desert has been a supermarket for smugglers and the smuggled for nearly a decade. Migrants choose from an array of packages offered by coyotes and pick up day packs and anti-dehydration potions for the trek north.
      Now drug smugglers want their route. And to drive home their point, they've burned nearly two dozen vehicles of van drivers in the last two months and left migrants shoeless in the sands of the Sonora.
      The violence spilled into Arizona last week. Three Guatemalans in a truck carrying illegal immigrants were killed in a shooting north west of Tucson.
      Some officials say human smugglers are fighting among themselves and ripping off migrant customers."
      This is just total insanity!  Why is it everyone wants to take control of the borders except for those who should? The Cartels are the only ones I see making any money on this.
      I do however, have a question. If the migrants who are risking everything to cross into our country are broke and destitute, where are they getting the money to pay the coyotes? Is this some of the money from other family members who have managed to cross over already?
     "They are actually burning buses now," says Marcos Burruel, a volunteer at a migrant shelter in Altar. These guys are trying to control the corridor for drugs and they do not want migrants using it."
     "Arizona is the heaviest sector for the U.S. Border Patrol for illegal immigrants. Nearly half of the arrests happen here and it has been targeted for a test of the newest technology for the year old Secure Border Initiative."
     "On the Texas border, Nuevo Laredo, a busy commercial port is one of the most violent cities on an already violent border. But migrant traffic through Laredo is only a fifth of what is in the Tucson Nogales region, according to Border Patrol statistics of apprehensions."
      I cannot help but wonder how many wars are we as a country capable of fighting at one time. Police, Border Patrol, National Guard, Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, aren't we spreading ourselves thin?
     "With an increase in the number of migrants who turn to smugglers, migration experts say the problems will only escalate. "
     "Still, the migrants and their smugglers come up with new ways to cross, despite increasing technological barries - using their own GPS gadgets and even an impostor Border Patrol van with the green insignia."
     "It is a very difficult job," says the Border Patrol's Mr. Soto, who carries a .40 caliber Beretta handgun in his holster. They shoot at us. They throw rocks at us and they even try to ram us with vehicles."
     There does not seem to be any logical conclusion to this problem on the horizon. If I did not know better, it sounds like we are resorting back to the days of the "Wild, Wild, West" and I am not so sure we want that either.