Some measures on illegal immigration to the United States have improved, but the Obama administration is ignoring violence spilling into the U.S. from Mexico, Arizona Sen. John McCain said Sunday.

The 2008 Republican presidential candidate noted that 28,000 Mexican citizens have been murdered in the drug war in Mexico, with 72 individuals, including 14 women, killed in one attack just last week. That violence is a threat to U.S. security, McCain said.

"The people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area,'" McCain "Fox News Sunday."

"The police chief of Nogales, Arizona, has been told that his police officers will be murdered if they interfere with the drug cartels. And that funnel is coming up through the state of Arizona," he said.

A Pew Hispanic Center study recently found that the annual flow of illegals into the United States is actually two-thirds of what it was five years ago, and the total number of illegals in the U.S. is down 8 percent from three years ago.


But McCain said the high level of violence is the chief reason to put up a fence, add surveillance capability and beef up the National Guard presence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Anybody who "hasn't seen what's going on south of our border, they have been oblivious to the terrible, terrible struggle that's going on down there," McCain said. "The incredible violence down there is spilling over onto our side of the border if we don't get our border secured."

McCain said President Obama needs to walk the Arizona-Mexico border and see for himself the destruction caused by an explosion in drug and human trafficking.

"Unfortunately, he hasn't had time to do so," he said.

McCain, who had sponsored immigration legislation in 2006 that critics called a pathway to "amnesty," said he hasn't made a late-night conversion on immigration issues, but the biggest threat from illegal immigration has changed.

Last week Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer filed an appeal to a judge's ruling in favor of a Department of Justice petition to stop an Arizona immigration law that would have allowed state and local police to request visa papers from individuals stopped for questioning on other matters.

Nearly a dozen states filed a legal brief Friday in support of that law, arguing that the judge erred in ruling that the law interferes with the executive branch's immigration enforcement priorities.

McCain said he's disappointed by the Justice Department's decision to get involved in the first place.

"For the federal government to sue the state of Arizona because the federal government hasn't carried out its responsibility and the state of Arizona is trying to get its border secured is really remarkable," he added.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/05/mccain-obama-ignoring-border-violence-threat/?test=latestnews

Ok, so if the cartels start killing cops after their threats, we should declair marshall law and send the military down there to police that part of the boarder and those boarder towns. The cartels would be dead, along with the smugglers.

Obama has done more to secure the borders than any president before him.

Bullcrap. He hasn't even touched the border fence that President Bush ordered started and would have been complete but Democrats got control in 2006 and rejected the funding.

The fence??? The fence that doesn't do a damn thing?

OH yea big f en deal

Obama has done more for border security than any president before him.

yes....hiring devout muslims to homeland security posts....ummm yeah....I feel safe.

Islamaphobia?

The hell is hans't. It has reduced the numbers in the areas it covers.

No hes just seen and experienced first hand what Muslims do to people.

I saw a Muslim guy smash his wife with a stick because his wife wasn't carrying a basket fast enough.

Be. Specific. WHAT has he 'done' ... ?

Where was this?

H, in some of his campaign BS, said the US has been awful hard on the Illegal and he would do all he could to pass amnesty.

That, got him the Mexican vote.

His "fence" here, where I am, is maybe 5 miles. That's not gonna' stop jack and it can easily be scaled.

The Mexicans taking over Az. could be stopped but, H needs their votes.

What needs to happen is, make it a Federal crime for law makers to accept bribes from special interests. Set up some stings and imprison the crooks who vote for the Illegal.

La Raza needs disbanded and exposed.

MECha needs to be investigated and disbanded.

Azteca, shut down

Brown Barets, MS13, need imprisoned.

Actually, we need some more brave folks to start pullin' some more ACORN type stings to weed out the trash in politics. They greedy and will fall for da' money.

Ummm, I can't think of anything. Oh wait he sued Arizona and Sheriff Joe for trying to enforce the laws and keep American's safe. That's what he has done.

Actually part of the fence is really good and really has worked. Duncan Hunter posted the reduced numbers during his campaign, parts of it are crap.

They need to have a 3 tier fence with different bends on it and spiked at the top with razor wire, that will make it not about to scale.

Then put sensors, cameras and that type of equipment all along the border.

Then give the Customs and Border Patrol about two dozen Predators and have non stop flights across the complete border. The Predators can be equiped with equipment that can detect tunnels and can detect smugglers and people crossing the border from miles overhead and ca't be detected by people on the ground.

Then give the boarder patrol and Coast Guard more equipment and boats and a couple Predators to completely patrol the waters from mexico to the US. They will then be able to detect ALL Narco Subs that come into our waters. They can usually be detected by air. AQ, Hamas, Hezbullah and the Taliban have expressed interest in acquiring a couple of Narco Subs. Also they have contacts in MS13 and other Mexican gangs and cartels to get smuggled into the US.

Then they need to put in the budget to hire A LOT more Border Patrol Agents.

Then send a ton of Troops and Military equipment, Jets, Tanks, Humvees, Choppers and everything else I can think of. Let them help patrol the boarders and arrest smugglers, cartel members(who are heavily armed with military weapons and equipment) and illegals. remember the viokence that has killed 29,000 people in Mexico this year is starting to spill over the boarder. We need the Military to counter that.

Then build spicific Prisons in the Desert for illeglas. It is a felony to enter illegally. Make them hard labor prisons and give them no luxuries and just three meals a day. Then make it to where they can NEVER gain citizenship if they are caught here illegally. If they keep getting caught then each prison sentance doubles.

That would deter 90% of them.

The only thing Oblowme has done is give more lip service about the issue.

Its not stopping the flow of illegals or the violence. Why is'nt he stepping in to help the Nogales, Az Sheriffs dept. after they have clearly been threatened by the drug lords??

Because he wants the mexican vote. Obviously, the vote of the legal citizens are not good enough for him, and his whole party.

He'd rather sue them then help them.

was O J simpson muslim? Was the green river killer in Seattle muslim?

MS13 is a Mexican gang? Last time I heard it was from EL Salvador (Mara salvatrucha to be exact) and asking for hard labor prisoners its called slavery