The Porous Border

What recourse did the state of Arizona have except to pass legislation to protect her citizenry when the Federal government has effectively abdicated our national sovereignty? Mexico has fallen into a state of anarchy near the US border with criminal gangs engaged in open war between themselves and against the Mexican police and army to gain control of the lucrative drug trade. There in Northern Mexico exists chaos and descent into madness with mass abduction, cold-blooded murder with no consideration for innocent bystanders , and even the beheading of law enforcement officers. Journalists and even US diplomats have fallen in the carnage, but when an Arizona rancher is gunned down on US soil, Arizona as a state must react, precisely because the Federal government which has the charge to do so, has failed so miserably, with criminal negligence allowing illegal aliens, drug smugglers, and perhaps even jihadists across the border that Washington fails to protect. If D.C. was not deliberately ignoring its duty to protect us, Arizona would not have needed to act on her own.