George Rebane
News reports tell of a civilian militia in New Mexico’s border region apprehending aliens who had just illegally crossed over from Mexico (here). The authorities were called and the 300+ illegals were detained until the Border Patrol arrived to arrest and take custody of the aliens. Such militias have operated in previous years – most recently during the Bush2 administration – to augment our under-staffed border security agencies in regions that are not secured by appropriate physical barriers. Such interdictions by concerned civilians have always been a problem to law enforcement authorities and political leaders, especially politicians who embrace porous borders and encourage illegal entrants. The reported incident drew the ire of New Mexico’s AG Balderas and the ACLU which immediately labeled the action “illegal”, and called for an investigation.
Throughout history it has been not only the prerogative, but the duty, of the citizens of a civil society to prevent criminal activity in their midst. Whether as a member of a law enforcement unit or a civilian, when a citizen is witness to a crime being committed, it is his duty to do everything possible to either stop the crime in process and/or aid the authorities in the apprehension of the criminal(s). When civilians have put themselves in harm’s way to either thwart crime or sacrifice themselves in the attempt, we have honored their courage and commitment to civil responsibility. However, today when the culture of a community promotes/condones ignoring such responsibilities, then our society inevitably slides toward a Mad Max world, as daily witnessed in our inner cities, and now throughout major metropolises governed under policies that hew overwhelmingly to social orders promoted in leftwing ideologies.
Crossing our borders illegally violates several US Codes, and those illegal aliens doing so are deemed criminals under US law. So the question arises, in this time of national emergency and humanitarian crisis when illegals are pouring into the US at rates exceeding one million per year, when our border authorities are overwhelmed in both staffing and detention facilities, when our legal system is totally dysfunctional and allows aliens to permanently escape and evade due process, is it not prudent for cohorts of concerned and willing Americans to augment the apprehension capabilities of our border security officers? Would news of such civilian reinforcements operating in remote and porous border regions not dissuade most would be illegals from risking their and their families’ lives and wellbeing to attempt such dangerous crossings?
Or do we now catalog crimes into categories which are politically correct for civilians to thwart, and those crimes which are politically incorrect and cannot be thwarted even by duly sworn law enforcement agencies, and therefore most certainly not by citizens concerned about the future of their country?
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