Darrell Castle talks about the Southern border and proposes solutions to help control illegal immigration.

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THE GREAT WALL CONTROVERSY

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday January 11, 2019 and on today’s Report I will be talking about the southern border of the United States. What, if anything, should be done about it? To build or not to build the wall, that is the question but it is not the only question.

Tuesday night the President gave a prime time address from the oval office to make his rhetorical case for why the United States should build a wall on its southern border. He said that “this is a choice between right and wrong, justice and injustice. This is about whether we fulfill our sacred duty to the American citizens we serve.”

 Who could argue with that statement? It is certainly a matter of right and wrong but that doesn’t answer the question. Is it the right thing or the wrong thing to build a wall? Asked in a different way the question could be is it right or wrong to allow foreign aliens unrestricted access to this country at the expense of American citizens, and if not then what should be done about it? Is there a solution without a wall?

The President mentioned that the problems he talked about tend to affect African American and Hispanic Americans disproportionately. In other words they are hurt the worst by the problems associated with illegal immigration. Ironically, these are some of the most fervent opponents to his agenda. He mentioned dangerous drugs in particular. As he described it, vast quantities of drugs including meth, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl are killing our citizens at the rate of 300 per week for fentanyl alone. Since the legal market for these drugs has almost dried up meaning few prescriptions are being legally written, the vast majority come across the southern border illegally.

He talked a great deal about crime and gave several statistics regarding arrests for serious violent felonies. He mentioned that thousands of Americans have been killed by those illegally in our country. Crime by illegals is one area that I have problems understanding. I understand the crimes but I don’t understand why we put up with them. Why would we intentionally allow foreign criminal aliens to run loose in our country victimizing American citizens unless we are intentionally doing it for some sinister reason?

Let me bring just three recent cases into focus so we can see the faces and know something about the lives of three recent victims of the Democrat Party’s open borders, sanctuary state policies. The first two we can call a tale of two Gustavos since they both have the same first name. The first, Gustavo Garcia had a criminal record going back several years with everything from illegal weapons to drug trafficking. He was deported in 2004 and 2014. He was arrested again and ICE put a hold on him as a dangerous criminal alien. California said no we are a sanctuary state so they turned him loose.

A few days later he shot a farm worker in the chest, robbed a mini mart of $2000, shot and killed a man and wounded a woman in the parking lot of a Motel 6, shot at gas station attendants killing one, fired into several homes stole a car, shot at pursuing police officers, and was himself killed in an auto crash at 100 MPH which put four others in the hospital.

 Number two is Gustavo Perez Arriaga who shot and killed a police officer and has a similar record of catch and release, but I’ve changed my mind. I can’t talk about this senseless violence any more so I will move on to the rest of the story. I will say though, that the Democrat politicians and some cheap labor Republicans too who pass laws which allow this mayhem to continue should perhaps be reminded of the faces of their victims. It would also be nice if the enabling sanctuary cities and sanctuary state politicians had to respond in damages to the victims and...