But don’t fool yourself – that “tradition” is most often a “right of passage”. 

You remember.  Think back – Prom Night.  Remember?  Yep!  That’s right, and now your little angel is about to leave her warm, cozy and protected nest to go to the Prom with “what’s his name”. 

Now are you worried?  You should be.  But I may have a few ideas that will ease the tension in your neck and keep you from making that white-knuckle fist when you see “what’s his name” begin to salivate at the sight of your sweet, innocent little girl playing “dress-up” in grown up ladies’ clothes.

First, be direct.  You can still be polite (although, who cares at this point, right?).  When the boy walks in the door, as your little angel is putting the final touches on her make up for the evening back in her room, just grip his hand like a vice and smile.  Then in a low, soft tone look him directly in the eye and say, “I’m so glad you’ll be escorting my daughter tonight.  She means the world to her mother and me and I would do anything to protect her.  So, I can rest assured that nothing…nothing will happen to her, right?”

At this point, casually lead him over to your collection of firearms in the gun case and show him your favorite weapon, making sure to point out its stopping power.

“I find the Glock Model G36 Compact .45 ACP with a Single Stack Magazine, like the one I’m holding here, (pull back the slide and let it slam shut for full psychological effect) performs most effectively, especially when using 230-grain Hydra-Shok rounds.   Traveling at 900 feet  per second, it’s just a bit slower than say, my 9mm, but, WOW!  What stopping power…unbelievable.  It’ll drop a full grown man…like one your size…dead in his tracks.”  Be sure to chuckle so he thinks you’re really crazy enough to pull the trigger.

Then, just before your little angel makes her grand entrance, tell him you’ll need to make a photocopy of his driver’s license…just to have on file.  I usually let them know that, as a private investigator, I’ll be running a background check on them when they leave – just routine, ya’ know – and if it’s clear then there won’t be any problems. 

Finally, look at them both and say, “No drugs.  No drinking.  And no sex.  Got it?  Now, you two have a nice time.”

She’ll be embarrassed that you were so brazen.  He’ll just be in shock.  And the likelihood of them sneaking off somewhere to have sex will drop dramatically…because all he’ll be able to think about is that Glock and your cold as steel eyes.

Do you think I’m joking?  Not hardly.  Nothing is more precious than that little girl who is suddenly all grown up – or so she thinks.

Don't kid yourself - drug smugglers, slave traffickers and international terrorists are all pouring over the border like flood waters over a collapsed dam…and they look like everyone else. They're hiding inside the wave of illegal alien workers seeking jobs, American dollars to send home to Mexico and the freebies we as a nation give them – from free healthcare to automatic citizenship for their babies born on American soil – delivered by that free healthcare.  And while the hemorrhage of "giveaways" is bad enough, the growing threat of criminal activity and terrorist sleeper cells is worse.  Remember, many of these people aren't from Mexico – they're from other parts of the world that we are fighting against in the war on terror.

Border security is a serious unilateral problem – our problem – but one the U.S. Government is too busy posturing over while the Mexican Government fuels it like gasoline on a bonfire.  Democrats and Republicans alike see the 25-million illegal aliens now in the U.S. as potential new voters, while American Business salivates at the hand-wringing thought of cheap labor.  All the while, criminals from third world countries are operating freely in the U.S.  At the same time, Mexican President Felipe Calderón visits the U.S. and thumbs his nose at U.S. citizens by addressing groups of Mexicans living here and telling them that they are helping the U.S. economy.

During his April 2008 visit to Dallas, Calderón told about 125 advisers to the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, an advisory board to the Mexican government, "The American economy cannot run without Mexican labor, which contributes to the prosperity of this country.  Then he added, "It's not my dream to spend the rest of my life seeing how Mexicans risk their lives crossing the river or the desert to find opportunities."

The Mexican president also talked about how sad it is back in Mexico to talk with so many Mexican citizens about their family members who are in the U.S., illegally of course, and not at home in Mexico with their families.  In fact, during the Dallas visit, Calderón admitted he had family members living and working illegally in the U.S., then had the audacity to joke that he would not reveal their whereabouts until after the U.S. overhauls its immigration laws. 

The way I see it – when a head of state has people, family or not, in a foreign country illegally – those people are often called “spies” and are arrested, tried and convicted of espionage.  Besides, if they miss Mexico and their families so much, why not go back? 

As easy as it is to get here it’s even easier to go back.  All one need do is turn one’s self into the nearest U.S. Immigration or Border Patrol official and one would get a free ride back home to Mexico at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer.

Keep this in mind; brutal drug related crimes continue on both sides of the border – deep into the U.S., as well as in Mexico – as illicit drugs and smuggled slaves flow into the United States side by side with a steadily growing number of illegal aliens and terrorists – and the toll in lives and money spent to combat this problem is incredible.  Last year alone, more than 300 Mexican law enforcement officials died in the line of duty in the war on drugs in Mexico, while, throughout Mexico, over 3,500 civilians have been murdered as a result of drug related activity – an average of 200 per month in the border town of Jaurez alone. 

In response, Mexican President Calderón  has mobilized more than 30,000 Mexican troops to hot spots across Mexico, including border towns like Juarez, to stem the tide of what the Mexican government calls “drug gang” violence.  But there are a couple problems with this; first, these aren't "gangs", these are organized crime operators – highly skilled and ruthless and without regard for borders – and, second, often the very military that has been sent to defend the people of Mexico against this activity is, in fact, working with the drug lords and smugglers.  In fact, over the past two years, the Mexican military has actually crossed into the U.S. – invaded sovereign U.S. Territory – over 200 times and even engaged in gun battles with U.S. Law enforcement as the Mexican soldiers aided smugglers into the U.S. with drugs and slaves.  Want more? How about this – Right now the CIA estimates 50,000 slaves are being moved into, out of or simply being forced to work within the U.S. at any one moment…in jobs ranging from farm labor to prostitution – often using under age girls.  Sound like the warring factions and corruption we see in places like Iraq and Afghanistan? 

Now, if those countries bordered our country how tight do you think our border security would be?  And if those people were kidnapping our innocent girls and forcing them into prostitution rings while recruiting our young men into their organized crime cells do you think we would stand for it?  So why do we tolerate it when it comes to Mexico?

Of course, Congress is funneling $1.4 billion to Mexico as part of an anti-drug assistance package to help in the fight.  But is it enough?

In a recent article in The Dallas Morning News, reporter Alfredo Corchado revealed no less than six military style training camps set up and run by Mexican drug cartels, most within a few miles of the Texas border.  The camps, often temporary by nature or set up on private land, train cartel recruits made up of Mexican army deserters and, shocking as it may sound, American teenagers.  These camps teach commando style attack tactics similar to what we've seen in confiscated footage of Al Qaeda terrorist training camps.  These Mexican drug cartel terrorists operate freely on both sides of the border, like a bad “B” Western movie, killing civilians and law enforcement agents at the rate of thousands per year. 

In fact, if you were to extrapolate the statistics with regard to murders in Mexico at the hands of the Mexican drug cartels it would dwarf the number of American soldiers killed in the Middle East since 2001 – as I said, just in the past year or so, over 3,500 civilians have been murdered in drug related crimes. 

Make no mistake, this is a real war with real consequences and to allow the 2,000 mile border between the U.S. and Mexico to operate like a sieve is placing countless American lives in danger and the American way of life at risk. But we’re supposed to turn a blind eye?

You might open that "blind eye" with a simply criminal background check.

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Have you ever wished you could spy on your spouse for a day or plant a camera in your home to watch the babysitter? You might have thought you were taking things a little too far, but private investigators use these and many other tactics to uncover secrets in people’s professional and personal lives. While PIs have been around for decades, their assistance is becoming more and more popular, as problems like fraudulence in the workplace, cheating spouses, child mistreatment and corporate corruption become increasingly common. . . . If you are curious about the work PIs do or are thinking about hiring one yourself, read on to ensure you’ll find one who is credible, reliable, experienced and honest. 

When working with a private investigator, communication and honesty are of the utmost importance. “Trust is essential,” says Holly Hunter, owner of Hunter Investigations, an Alpharetta-based PI firm. . . . "If you’re seeking a divorce, you’re entrusting the most intimate details of your life to a private investigator,” she says. “You’re trusting the investigator to act lawfully. You’re also trusting the investigator to do everything he or she can to obtain the information you need and has been truthful with you about their activity. That trust can’t be broken.”

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Hunter’s quiet demeanor allows her to waltz in and out of situations and strike up conversations by either chatting up unsuspecting female interviewees or spreading a hint of “Southern charm” on male targets. Before long, she obtains the information she needs and, like a Navy Seal, has left the area without leaving so much as a footprint.

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