Old America: Citizens Get to Go Where They Want Inside the United States. New, Improved Obamerica: No-Go Zones, Thanks to Open Borders.

Please try and contain your surprise at this report from ABC News:

US Bodies Found in Arizona Related to Drug Cartels

Five people found burned beyond recognition in an abandoned SUV in an area of Arizona frequented by smugglers were likely the victims of one of the same drug cartels that have ravaged parts of Mexico with their rampant violence, the local sheriff said today.

A border patrol agent noticed a white Ford Expedition stopping around 4:30 a.m. Saturday in Vekol Valley, a desert area that's a well-known smuggling corridor for drugs and illegal immigrants from Mexico. Suspecting the car stopped to pick up drugs, the agent tried to make contact with the vehicle, but the vehicle fled.

When the sun came up, the agent noticed car tracks leading offroad and followed them for a couple miles into the desert. The agent found a smoldering vehicle and called for back-up. When other agents arrived, they used fire extinguishers to put out the fire and found five charred bodies inside the car, police say...



...The Vekol Valley is located 70 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. Babeu called the area a "hotbed for human and drug smuggling."

The federal government put up 15 billboards that read "Danger Warning, Travel Not Recommended, Drug Smuggling, Active and Armed Gunmen" in the area along Interstate 8.

Last year, the Vekol Valley was the site of the largest drug bust in the history of Arizona.

Seventy-six members of the Sinaloa cartel were arrested in the bust, known as Operation Pipeline Express. The suspects had 108 weapons, including scoped rifles, AK47s and two weapons from the U.S. government's Fast and Furious program.

Super.

So not only did the Holder Justice Department provide thousands of military-grade weapons to the Mexican drug cartels in order to spur renewed calls for gun regulations, but they have also done their level best to keep the borders wide open, in part to promote cartel gang violence inside the U.S., innocent victims be damned. Call it gun control by any means necessary.

Oh, but that's right: Democrats are for the little people.