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What Side Is She On?

Sovereignty: Hillary Clinton assured Ecuadoreans the U.S. would sue Arizona if it tried to enforce federal immigration laws. She said it just as the feds ceded part of Arizona to Mexican traffickers. What's going on here?

We'd like to think that the secretary of state, who went way overboard in attempting to placate the anti-American government of Ecuador on a visit there two weeks ago, was just trying to win popularity points with the Ecuadorean public when she told a Quito-based TV station on June 8 the Obama administration "will be bringing a lawsuit against the (Arizona) act." That law, you'll recall, requires state police to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books.

The statement comes at a bad time and demonstrates, at best, how ignorant Clinton is of the terrible realities in Arizona.

That's because Mexican cartels (who smuggle Ecuadorean as well as other illegal immigrants) have begun moving in as far as 80 miles inland of Arizona, effectively assuming control over U.S. land, according to officials.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu declared at a press conference that "we have lost control."

If that sounds like hyperbole, note that one of Babeu's deputies was recently wounded in a pitched gun battle with alien smugglers. And more to the point, the Feds themselves admit as much.

They have closed off the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge — land specially set aside for taxpayers to enjoy — as too dangerous. Further north, they have posted 11 signs in the Sonoran Desert National Monument warning visitors to keep away if they value their lives because traffickers are rampant and they cannot protect everyone.

One reason for this is our Border Patrol is nearly powerless. Federal environmental regulations literally forbid them from going onto the land. Lawmen are confined to visits by horseback against these armed foreign invaders, but only to protect the environment traffickers openly defile. As a result, paramilitary traffickers armed with AK-47s now circle the outer edges of Phoenix, our nation's fifth-largest city.

If it sounds shocking, it is. Never in the history of the United States has land been ceded to a foreign power because the U.S. has been unwilling to defend it.

Hillary Clinton's words to Ecuador may have been meant to please the locals, but they also sent a message to the smuggling cartels on our border: The door is open for invasion and the U.S. has no intent to defend itself.