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LewWaters
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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 5:19 am Post subject: Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona |
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Found in today's Washington Times;
| Quote: | Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published May 13, 2005
U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.
More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.
"It was clear to everyone here what was being said and why," said one veteran agent. "The apprehensions were not to increase after the Minuteman volunteers left. It was as simple as that." |
Rest of story
Of course, supervisors are again saying the agents are wrong. Regardless, I think the Minutemen proved their point.
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:12 am Post subject: |
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Border Patrol agents have been begging for better funding and staffing for a long time - a lower number of arrests than usual would speak to an overrated need for more staffing and funding.
I can't imagine that any of them are "going quietly into that good night" with regard to this order. No wonder there's such major "leakage" of this story - this is normally a close-mouthed community, quite insular.
It's gotta be something particularly loathesome for so many to speak out like this - even going to a Congressman over it? Whew!
Bet somebody's gonna fry for this before it's over. I only hope it's the right person.
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PhantomSgt
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 7:16 am Post subject: |
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It is just a numbers game to the Border Patrol leadership.
QUESTIONS/MY ANSWERS:
How many illegal border crossers need to be apprehended to meet the management quota?
ALL OF THEM YOU LARD BUTTS IN DC!
How many illegal border crossers per month is considered acceptable by management?
NONE! NADA! ZERO! GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME DC!
Would you say it is easier to capture them in open desert or after they blend into the population Management?
God Save Us All! if they can't figure this one out
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PhantomSgt
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"Give me your tired, your poor, your drug dealers, your prostitutes, your murderers, your terrorists and of course your huddled masses yearning to get free medical care." Heck we will take anyone, anytime; just walk on in.
I felt it was time to update Emma Lazarus’s 19th Century Poem
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Beatrice1000
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:37 am Post subject: Re: Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona |
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| LewWaters wrote: | Found in today's Washington Times;
Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona |
The Minuteman Project has definitely hit a few nerves and I expected that they would -- but this sort of response is so disappointing – this serious issue is not a GAME to be played by powerful people with powerful agendas….
Back on May 6, Chris Simcox was denied access to a Press Conference held by DHS in Arizona. This is manipulative and disturbing. Sen. McCain & other senators were there…. Were Chertoff and the senators worried about questions Chris might have asked them?:
(excerpts/emphasis mine)
| Quote: | Michelle Malkin’s Immigration Blog:
“MMP Organizer Denied Access to DHS Press Conference,” by Chris Kelly – 5/6/05
Yesterday, the new head of the DHS, Michael Chertoff, visited Arizona for a first-hand look at border issues and gave a press conference. Chris Simcox, one of the organizers of the Minuteman Project, was specifically denied access to the press conference. <….>
“DHS head visits AZ; TX sheriffs warn of border crime,” by Chris Kelly – 5/6/05
The new head of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, paid a visit to the Arizona border earlier today. Sens. McCain and Kyl and AZ Gov. Napolitano were there as well, <….> |
| Quote: | “Simcox denied access to press conference,” by Bill Hess, Herald/Review – 5/6/05
DOUGLAS – While members of different Arizona media outlets were inside the gates of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Douglas Station, a newspaper owner, editor and reporter was denied access to a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
Chris Simcox, who owns, edits, and writes for the Tombstone Tumbleweed, said he was told Border Patrol Tucson Sector Chief Michael Nicley said he could not attend the press conference Thursday. Calls for comments from the Tucson Sector public affairs office were not returned. Simcox said he was told to call Nicley for the reason he was denied access, but the chief had not returned his calls on Thursday afternoon. “I showed up with credentials and was held outside the gate,” Simcox said, adding it was then he learned from a Border Patrol agent that Nicley refused him access to the press conference. <…….> If he was banned because of the Minuteman Project connection, Simcox said that is unfair because he had a right to attend the press conference and report on Chertoff’s visit. |
Unfortunately, our political will on the issue of illegal immigration is expressed quite clearly in the following “new” language:
| Quote: | “Special Report: Shake-Up at DHS,” by Michelle Malkin – 5/11/05
…. Tellingly, the "I" in ICE will no longer stand for immigration, but for "investigations." The turf-protecting FBI ain't gonna like that. More to the point: If the Border Patrol is forbidden from doing interior immigration enforcement and local cops and state troopers can't or won't do it, and ICE will no longer even put that responsibility in its own acronym, who will pick up the slack? |
As reported in the Tombstone Tumbleweed of 5/12/05 – a BP union president has quit:
Here’s Dassaro’s farewell letter:
| Quote: | Border Patrol – Local 1613 NBPC – San Diego
“Farewell letter to members and Union staff: Time Served” – President Dassaro, 4/22/05
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<….> The impact of the homeland security legislation is no longer a subject for academic discussion….. As I write this, most Border Patrol sectors have drastically, and permanently, altered shift structures to save money.... <…..> Border Patrol Agents are asked to relocate with the lowest funded relocation package in government service, <…..> Agents are now disciplined and fired at unprecedented rates for trivial matters. Finally, and perhaps most extraordinarily, it is my professional opinion that most Border Patrol Agents will face significant pay cuts …<….>
On the Border Patrol; during my tenure with this agency, I watched the Border Patrol mature into something it should not be: one of the most inefficient and misleading agencies in the history of government. The merger into the Department of Homeland Security only exasperated previously existing problems under the legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service. Subsequently, I believe this agency, as a government organization and employer, is beyond redemption.
<…..> Although there are some good managers, mainly remnants of legacy Border Patrol, they are retiring at a rapid rate. How can we possibly expect this agency or you as an agent of the government tasked to protect the American people, to function in the context of its mission with leaders who have technically never performed the job of Border Patrol Agent? Simply put, you cannot; therefore, you do not; and, you never will. For your sanity, you need to acknowledge that fact and either dig in or move on.
As I can no longer bear direct witness to the “Walmartization” of Border Patrol Agents and the “Enronning” of a governmental agency tasked with securing our nation, I must depart this agency <……> |
I find the following “problems” regarding border security to be utterly remarkable and outrageous –
| Quote: | (scroll to Page 10): “Kyl Cites Hope and Problems With Border Security”, by Rick Murray, Tombstone Tumbleweed – 5/12/05
(excerpted pts in the article)
---Lack of funding to fully implement even existing technologies, from cameras to radar installations.
---Federal ownership of the vast majority of the Arizona desert, and the accompanying myriad environmental restrictions.
---it takes more than two years to get a permit to install a single camera atop a pole in some areas,
---restrictions against government vehicular pursuit of illegal aliens and smugglers in desert areas.
---the horses the Border Patrol is allowed to use must be given a special feed so that their waste does not introduce non-indigenous seeds to the area.
---Statutory restrictions against establishing permanent checkpoints on roads leading north from the Arizona border (as Texas and other states have).
---prohibition, on religious grounds, by the Tohono O’odham Indian Tribe against using hilltops on their reservation for cameras, radar or observation posts (the hilltops are regularly used by smugglers and illegal aliens).
---Limited cooperation from the Mexican government, which has historically accepted little responsibility for controlling illegal immigration, and refuses to address (among other issues) well-known “staging” areas - towns on the Mexican side of the border in which literally thousands of transitory residents are continuously preparing to attempt to cross illegally into the United States. <….> |
They’re worried about “non-indigenous seeds” being introduced into the area ----- Seeds.
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And then we also have this disturbing sideline issue resulting from our lack of strict enforcement of our LAW regarding ILLEGAL immigration:
| Quote: | “Gang follows illegal aliens,” by Jon Ward, WashTimes – 5/5/05
(excerpts)
The violent MS-13 -- or Mara Salvatrucha -- street gang is following the migratory routes of illegal aliens across the country, FBI officials say, calling the Salvadoran gang the new American mafia.
MS-13, which has a significant presence in the Washington area, and other gangs are spreading into small towns and suburbs by following illegal aliens seeking work in places such as Providence, R.I., and the Carolinas, FBI task force director Robert Clifford said. "The migrant moves and the gang follows," said Mr. Clifford, director of the agency's MS-13 National Gang Task Force. "If you follow the construction trade, this is where a lot of these immigrants go." Immigrants in search of construction and meat-packing jobs often provide housing for younger relatives who may be involved in a gang, Mr. Clifford said. <…>
In 2002, The Washington Times obtained a Metropolitan Police Department internal memo that stated that 20 MS-13 members from Los Angeles traveled to Northern Virginia because they were "upset with the local MS-13 gang because a Fairfax County police officer has not been killed." "We're trying to decide whether this is something that has a higher structure or whether it's just a network," said Chris Swecker, assistant director for the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division. <….>
…… Chicago Police Superintendent Philip J. Cline said street gangs like MS-13 are far more violent than the Mafia ever was. <….> The FBI and other federal and local law-enforcement agencies are beginning to work closely with law enforcement in El Salvador and Honduras. |
NOTE: Check out the Bulletin at the **Minuteman Project website** -- they are receiving organized, dangerous threats.
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Beatrice...
Thanks for the post. $$$ otw to the Minuteman org is my reaction  |
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carpro
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If I was President George W. Bush, I would have the person responsible for this idiocy standing tall in front of my desk instantly.
For some reason, I don't believe that will happen.
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