Poet Robert Frost wrote the line “Good fences make good neighbors” in 1914. Today he might have recycled “Secure national borders make for a safer citizenry.”
When national borders are weakened — as the U.S. continues to do along the southern border — illegal immigrants are free to stream into the country. This can be confusing for legal citizens. I’ve said it before: confusion breeds fear.
In the desert ranchlands of southern Arizona, this brand of fear can kill people.
That may have happened in the case of George Alan Kelly, 73, who is accused of shooting and killing an illegal immigrant on his property near the US-Mexico border.
The alleged victim, tentatively identified as 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Butimia from a Mexican voter registration found on his body, is no stranger to the U.S. Cuen-Butimia has been deported to Mexico several times, according to the Daily Mail. Most recently in 2016.
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Kelly’s Kino Springs Ranch is located in an isolated area about a mile and a half north of the US-Mexico border. There, it’s every man for himself. Rugged individualism was the American ideal. In Kelly’s case, it looks like a curse.
According to data from US Customs and Border Protection, there were more than a quarter million illegal immigrant encounters along the US-Mexico border in December. According to the New York Post, that is the highest monthly amount ever recorded.
It’s easy to see why US citizens living in rugged rural areas near the southern border would be a little flustered.
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Apparently, none of that played into Santa Cruz County’s decision to charge Kelly with first-degree murder. Kelly was slapped with a $1 million bail bond, which he asked the judge to lower because he would let his wife fend for herself at the ranch.
“She’s right there,” Kelly pleaded at the court hearing. “There is no one to take care of her, the cattle or the livestock. And I’m not going anywhere. I can’t come up with a million dollars. “
The judges weren’t having it. It appears to be an overkill on the part of authorities, who are still trying to figure out what happened to trigger the shooting.
Under Arizona law, a property owner can use deadly force if he or she believes it is “immediately necessary” to prevent trespassing, according to the Mail. Arizona also has “stand your ground” laws that allow homeowners to use deadly force.
Kelly is an old man. It’s not like they jumped bail and crossed the border illegally and went into hiding.
The whole case seems upside down. Is Kelly being punished for protecting her property? Is he guilty until proven innocent? It sounds like that.
If Kelly had a history of shooting people in the Arizona desert, why wouldn’t authorities advance that information to justify a $1 million bond?
The entire country has been turned upside down under President Joe Biden’s watch.
Bottom line: The Biden administration has deliberately undermined border security. There is no other plausible explanation for the unfolding fiasco on our southern border.
is it crazy Yes. There is no doubt about it. And this is making us locals very restless.
Frost is right – good fences make good neighbors because they clearly demarcate private property. Secure borders clearly define a nation. When the border is blurred, citizens are confused. What was once obvious becomes a question mark.
And the country also does everything dear.
This article was originally published in The Western Journal.