LF: Arizona Governor 'Has Lost Her Head'

The Arizona governor, seemingly determined to repel every last tourist dollar from her pariah state, has sounded a new alarm about border violence. "Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded," she announced on local television.

Ay, caramba! Those dark-skinned foreigners are now severing the heads of fair-haired Americans? Maybe they're also scalping them or shrinking them or putting them on a spike.

But those in fear of losing parts north of the neckline can relax. There's not a follicle of evidence to support Brewer's claim.

The Arizona Guardian Web site checked with medical examiners in Arizona's border counties, and the coroners said they had never seen an immigration-related beheading. I called and e-mailed Brewer's press office requesting documentation of decapitation; no reply.

Brewer's mindlessness about headlessness is just one of the immigration falsehoods being spread by Arizona politicians. Border violence on the rise? Phoenix becoming the world's No. 2 kidnapping capital? Illegal immigrants responsible for most police killings? The majority of those crossing the border are drug mules? All wrong.

This matters, because it means the entire premise of the Arizona immigration law is a fallacy. Arizona officials say they've had to step in because federal officials aren't doing enough to stem increasing border violence. The scary claims of violence, in turn, explain why the American public supports the Arizona crackdown.

Last year gave us death panels and granny killings, but compared with the nonsense justifying the immigration crackdown, the health-care debate was an evening at the Oxford Union Society.

Two months ago, the Arizona Republic published an exhaustive report that found that, according to statistics from the FBI and Arizona police agencies, crime in Arizona border towns has been "essentially flat for the past decade." For example, "In 2000, there were 23 rapes, robberies and murders in Nogales, Ariz. Last year, despite nearly a decade of population growth, there were 19 such crimes." The Pima County sheriff reported that "the border has never been more secure."

FBI statistics show violent crime rates in all of the border states are lower than they were a decade ago -- yet Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) reports that the violence is "the worst I have ever seen." President Obama justifiably asserted last week that "the southern border is more secure today than any time in the past 20 years," yet Rush Limbaugh judged the president to be "fit for the psycho ward" on the basis of that remark.

Without question, illegal immigration and Mexican drug cartels are huge problems. And there is a real danger that the alarming and growing violence in Mexico could spread north. But beyond anecdotes -- the slaying of a rancher and the shooting of a sheriff's deputy -- there is no evidence that it has.

Yet there is McCain -- second only to Brewer in wrecking Arizona tourism -- telling NBC, ABC and CNN that Phoenix is the "No. 2 kidnapping capital of the world," behind only Mexico City. "False," judged Politifact, tracing McCain's claim to a dubious report by ABC News in February 2009. Law-enforcement agencies generally don't track foreign kidnapping statistics, but experts said rates are far higher in various Central American, African and Asian countries. Reports of kidnapping in Phoenix, meanwhile, are declining.

Next, there's Brewer's claim that "the majority" of people immigrating illegally "are coming here and they're bringing drugs, and they're doing drop houses and they're extorting people and they're terrorizing the families. That is the truth." No, it isn't. The Border Patrol's Tucson Sector has apprehended more than 170,000 undocumented immigrants since Oct. 1, but only about 1,100 drug prosecutions have been filed in Arizona in that time.

The claim that illegal immigrants are behind most killings of law-enforcement personnel is also bunk. Arizona state Sen. Sylvia Allen claimed that "in the last few years 80 percent of our law enforcement that have been killed or wounded have been by an illegal." A Phoenix police spokesman told the Arizona Republic's E.J. Montini that the real figure for such killings is less than 25 percent, and that there are no statistics on the wounding of officers.

So what is this "terrible border security crisis" that Brewer says has only "gotten worse"? She complained recently to Fox News's Greta Van Susteren about the Obama administration's handling of the border: "They haven't did [sic] their job."

But really the person who hasn't did her job is Brewer. She should screw her head back on and start telling Americans the truth.

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Police chief decapitated in northern Mexico town - USATODAY.com Mar 27, 2010 ... The decapitated body of the police chief of a northern Mexico town and the body of his brother were found inside the chief's patrol truck ...

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The body of Heriberto Cerda, the police chief in Agualeguas, was found on the bed of a patrol pickup, which was left on a dirt road in the nearby town of General Trevino. His head was on his lap, Headless Bodies Found Near Border | NBC San Diego Police are on high alert in Tijuana after raging violence claims another 14 lives, including two people whose headless corpses were found near the border, according ... nbcsandiego.com/.../Headless_Bodies_Found_Near_Border.html - 231k - Cached

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(4)Headless Bodies Discovered Near U.S. Border - San Diego News ... Headless Bodies Discovered Near U.S. Border. Four decapitated bodies were found Wednesday on an empty lot 15 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border,

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They initially believed they saw 25 bodies, then 55. But as they struggle to reassemble the bodies at the morgue in the capital city, they now believe they have the remains of 64 people.

The recovery of the remains took five days, and the work of identifying the dead has just begun, a task made more difficult by the fact that some cadavers were mummified, others were dismembered by the fall and at least four had been decapitated.

"There are headless bodies, but some of the heads don't match the bodies," Rivera said.

Based on examinations of wounds, investigators said many victims apparently were alive when they were thrown down the mine shaft. A few might even have survived the fall before they succumbed to injuries.

4 decapitated bodies found in Mexican border city Authorities found the decapitated bodies of four men Tuesday in the border city of Tijuana, while a grenade attack on a police station in western Mexico wounded a pregnant woman and her 3-year-old daughter.

The severed heads were found on Sunday morning in black plastic bags dumped near a superstore in the southern city of Chilpancingo. Their bodies were recovered along two motorways leading to the coastal resort of Acapulco

Dana Milbank suggesting somebody 'should tell the truth' is like Bill Clinton telling men to 'act like a gentleman towards women...'

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Anyone who thinks these savages won't eventually cross the border and slaughter them (if they stand in their way) because their American, is honestly too stupid to live.

They're murdering cops and soldiers, not to mention a couple of American diplomats recently...what the hell is there to stop them. If we can't stop them at the border, we will have to deal with it in our own streets. jmo!

Its telling those virulently against Brewer and the AZ law are the furthest away from the chaos taking place there.

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

I hope Brewer stays safe, because I just read a news story where they also murdered one of their own who was (I think) running for governor. They're notorious for murdering anyone who dares stand in their way.

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

I also know that no one can say with all honestly that our own leaders aren't worried about their safety, they'd be really stupid not to, I can just see them all now, counting their armed guards and demanding to know what country they originate from, if foreign. I mean, how many famous singers/intertainers do you know here in the US who are being systematically assassinated? Or reporters, or publishers...and so on?