[RealJustme]

The Obama administration is set to designate a 600,000 acre national monument in south-central New Mexico to be managed and controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency. The designated land will be called the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. Melissa Subbotin, the Communications Director for Rep. Bishop, told Breitbart News that Obama appears likely to bypass the Senate and Congress by creating the monument under the Antiquities Act effectively seizing the land from private and State owners. The Antiquities Act is a tool for presidents to lock up land," Subbotin told Breitbart News. "Environmentalists have had their eye on this border land for a long time--they think that Border Patrol and State Law Enforcement Officers are destroying the landscape by driving vehicles on it.

"No vehicle traffic will be allowed," Subbotin said. "Making this a new national monument will impede Border Patrol's ability to have routine access to the land."

Interfering with Border Patrol and Law Enforcement's access to the highly illegal trafficked land will "create a huge criminal corridor," Subbotin said.

Zack Taylor, the Chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, told Breitbart News the creation of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument "is the biggest breach of border security I have seen in the last 20 years. The people don't want it, and the sheriff doesn't want it. It is an open invitation for the foreign drug cartels and transnational criminals to bring their illegal drugs and aliens into the U.S."

Dona Ana County Sheriff Todd Garrison also opposes the creation of the monument. He claimed that the federal government never contacted local law enforcement for their opinion on the matter.

Garrison told Breitbart News,"Once the land becomes a national monument, local law enforcement can no longer effectively patrol the areas. When the Obama Administration makes it a monument, the existing roads there will close down. We will not have access to the land. I can't go out and patrol the area like I do now, which lessens crime. If we cant get out there to control it, only law abiding citizens will follow the law and criminals wont."

"Local law enforcement was never brought to the table to discuss this issue," he continued. "We have one of the largest cartels right across the Mexican border, and one of the most unsafe cities in the world. Are we supposed to believe that nothing's going to happen here if we impede law enforcement authorities from doing their jobs? That's just stupid."

Ultimately, Garrison does not understand the president's motives for using unilateral authority to create the monument. "He has the right to do this, but why is he doing it? It's certainly not in the best interests of U.S. citizens but the Mexican drug cartels are applauding the move. The Federal land will be off limits to my Officers and roads closed to Border Patrols. "We have a real issue on the border. People say they want to protect that land for our children, but criminal activity is being conducted on it daily. It's up to us to stop it."

Garrison isn't the only sheriff to oppose the monument.

"The Southwest Border Sheriffs opposed the it, and the New Mexico Sheriffs oppose the it. Their input and testimony has been summarily suppressed in the media. It is past time their voices are heard," Taylor said.

There is no question in anyone's mind that this is just another move by Obama to open our borders to future Democrat voters since Congress won't allow him to trash our immigration laws...so he's just ignoring the laws.

[johnforbes]

Obama's release of 36,000 illegals with crimes such as murder and rape, and thousands of drunk drivers, tell the tale.

Obama sees America as too capitalistic, too strong, etc.

Almost nobody can even recognize the America of their youth these days.