By a Friend of Columnist
Thought I would take a few minutes and recap what is happening in Green Valley right now. For those of you that have not been here, Green Valley is a community of about 25,000 people located about a half hour south of Tucson and ~35 miles north of the Mexican border. It is a retirement community. The joke is most people are eating supper at 4 p.m. and in bed by 7 p.m. The crime rate is nil. But we cannot say the same of Tucson. Our county is PIMA.
PIMA county has announced it will "invest" $2 million of OUR county taxpayer dollars to buy hotel rooms for illegals. The Border Patrol is overwhelmed. They are now building large tents on the local military base (Davis-Montham) which will "temporarily hold" 500 illegals under one tent. Border Patrol is not testing for covid and not vaccinating the illegals they catch; which is opposite of what some bureaucrats are stating on the news channels. Border Patrol estimates they are catching 7/10 illegals crossing; but as they say- "we really don't know."
This past week in Green Valley:
1. We live about a quarter mile from the open desert on the south and west side of Green Valley. A Border Patrol helicopter was chasing illegals at 3 a.m. with search lights and a ground crew last week about a half mile from our house in the open desert.
2. PIMA Community College (PCC) is also located on the west side of Green Valley and "butts up" to the open desert. Last week Border Patrol tried to corral an estimated 200 illegals walking by PCC through the desert. When Border Patrol arrived, the ~200 illegals fled in different directions.
3. Golfers reported a few days ago (on the golf course we live on)- that 5 illegals were literally running down the middle of a green fairway attempting to evade Border Patrol who were in pursuit with their pick-up trucks. Border Patrol stopped their trucks and asked the golfers for their golf carts to continue pursuit. When the 5 illegals (young men) saw Border Patrol now chasing them in golf carts they ALL dropped their back packs and continued running. Another Border Patrol Agent was filming this and grabbed yet another golf cart to secure the 5 back packs. What did he find? The back packs were full of hand guns, extra clips, and ammo. They did catch and arrest all 5 illegals. Came to find out they were "really bad hombres" with criminal records.
Nobody has been hurt and property damage has not happened (yet) in Green Valley; but not so in Tucson. Local news (including our little Green Valley newspaper) choose not to share these real life stories. Where is the honesty in our press?
Today, my wife and I cleaned out our closets and took a few bags of clothes over to a donation station in Green Valley. A group of citizens were on a major street intersection waving American Flag(s), a Trump flag, and holding signs asking "WHERE is Biden and Kamala to address their decision of relaxing our border protections?" Good question.
Perhaps the local press WILL cover this "violent mob - filled with right wing, flag-waving, racist, white supremacists?"
This is real folks. Since early February things have really changed- we are being overwhelmed with illegals from multiple countries. Unfortunately within these groups are child molesters, child traffickers, criminals, rape trees with panties as trophies being displayed in the desert, dead bodies in the desert, weapons, drugs, covid/other diseases?; resulting in our county taxpayer money being pissed away, tent cities being built with federal tax payer dollars, local religious organizations are overwhelmed, etc.
Thought you would want to know the truth and the seriousness of this situation- "from a snowbird local." We are heading back to [our home state] in a couple of weeks to enjoy late spring/summer/fall...good timing.
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