Armed Guards For Cattle Inspectors
Only in America is a cattle inspector now a dangerous occupation. Really what is it going to take before we rise up and say enough! I’m Susan Allen and I’ll be back on today’s Open Range. It’s very sad to think we’ve come to the place in this country, when someone required by law to check cattle weighing devices does so accompanied by an armed guard. New Mexican USDA cattle inspectors who routinely certify scales utilized by ranchers to weigh cattle will now be provided armed deputies as they travel ranch country in the region that includes Luna, Hidalgo, and Grant counties to the Mexico –Arizona borders. In a Fox News interview Luna county sheriff Raymond Cobos called the armed escorts “a benefit to all of us,” and a safe way of providing USDA personnel with protection so they don't encounter a situation that would imperil the equipment or their lives. He went on to say, “ It's a relatively small cost to prevent a tragedy." Yet it’s again another “small cost” courtesy of illegal immigrants that we shouldn’t have to bare.” So will the deputies actually be allowed to use their weapons if confronted ? Considering what’s happening in Arizona I doubt it because in this new “third country” US laws no longer apply, (anything for the hispanic vote) this of course being the same region T.J. Bonner head of the National Border Patrol Council told Cochise Country ranchers on a May 6th conference call that he can’t put his agents right on the border as the ranchers requested because it’s" too dangerous "and his own words a “combat zone.” Shows how much they value American families ranching near the border.
