Posted on 08/21/2004 10:40:01 AM PDT by forest
A few weeks ago, Jerry Seper at The Washington Times wrote a well researched three part series titled: "FREE PASS: America's losing fight against illegals."[1] It is still there for anyone interested in catching up on the topic.
Last week, Seper struck yet again, this time describing the "Limits sought on Border Patrol" agents.
According to Seper: "The Department of Homeland Security wants to restrict the U.S. Border Patrol's arrest of illegal aliens in the nation's interior, concerned that the recent apprehension of 450 illegals by agents in inland areas of Southern California failed to consider the 'sensitivities' of those detained. According to department sources, a formal written policy under review would limit Border Patrol arrests to areas along the nation's 7,000 miles of international border and give U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the responsibility for enforcing immigration laws in the nation's interior."[2] As reported: "Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson criticized the arrests, saying they had not been approved by officials in Washington and violated U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) policy, the agency that oversees the Border Patrol. In a letter, Mr. Hutchinson, undersecretary for border and transportation security, assured Rep. Joe Baca, California Democrat -- and other members of the state's delegation who complained about the arrests -- that in the future, Homeland Security would enforce immigration laws 'in a reasonable manner' and would consider the 'sensitivities' surrounding the enforcement of those laws in its interior-enforcement program."
"Sensitivities" surrounding the enforcement of federal laws? Congress critters who do NOT want federal law enforced? What the hell kind of deal is this? How about some "sensitivities" enforcing tax laws, environmental laws & such against the American people! What are we, chopped liver here?
Anyway, Hutchinson creates a major problem for the American people, of course. ICE only has 2,300 agents for interior-enforcement. As The Times reports, those agents are tasked to finding the "80,000 criminal aliens on the nation's streets and 320,000 foreign nationals known as 'absconders,' who fled after being ordered deported."
Which also means that no one -- not one federal official -- is bothering to round up the other few million illegal immigrants permanently camped out here and sucking up our tax dollars in services.
According to authorities, over 1.2 million people attempt to cross US borders illegally each year -- that they know about. Many of them are OTMs (Other than Mexicans). No one knows how many are potential terrorists.
The August 16 London Telegraph[3] informs us that at least two groups of Arab males were discovered by patrol guards from Willcox, Arizona. "These guys didn't speak Spanish," said one field agent, "and they were speaking to each other in Arabic. It's ridiculous that we don't take this more seriously. We're told not to say a thing to the media." A colleague told the paper: "All the men had brand-new clothing and the exact same cut of moustache." Local ranchers have also reported a rise in the sightings of large groups of young males. Patrol agents told an Arizona newspaper that 77 males "of Middle Eastern descent" were apprehended in June in two separate incidents.
On the other hand, last week the Department of Homeland Security announced that it planned to give border patrol agents "sweeping new powers" to deport illegal aliens from the borders abutting Mexico and Canada -- without providing the aliens the opportunity to make their case before an immigration judge. Previously, border patrol agents usually delivered undocumented immigrants to the custody of the immigration courts, where judges determined whether they should be deported or remain in the United States. Which presented yet another silly problem:
Steve McCraw, the assistant director of the FBI's Office of Intelligence, stated that "the ability of foreign nationals to use [the hearings procedure] to create a well-documented but fictitious identity in the United States, provides an opportunity for terrorists to move freely within the US without triggering name-based watch lists. It also enables them to board planes without revealing their true identity." Fact is, law enforcement agencies across the south-west border are very alarmed that the US is releasing thousands of OTMs [Other than Mexicans]. Some are from nations defined as state sponsors of potential terrorism and/or even nations that have produced large numbers of al-Qaeda militants.
So, there was a small fix accomplished with those "sweeping new powers to deport illegal aliens." Even so, there are many millions of illegal aliens squatting in this country today and no one of authority enforcing our immigration law.
"Sensitivities" be damned, that must change; and soon. Else, the federal government is demonstrating to the American people that federal law is no more than arbitrarily (tyrannically) enforced suggestions.
1. <http://www.washtimes.com/>
2. <http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040817-011448-1322r.htm>
3. <http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14649>
ICE only has 2,300 agents to find 80,000 criminal aliens. Which also means that no one is bothering to round up the other few million illegal immigrants permanently camped out here and sucking up our tax dollars in services.
According to authorities, over 1.2 million people attempt to cross US borders illegally each year. Some are from nations defined as state sponsors of potential terrorism and/or even nations that have produced large numbers of al-Qaeda militants.
The greatest disappointment of the Bush administration.
What's next, a David Brock style epiphany?
OOPS sorry!
Ain't that the truth?! We're taxpaying nobodies supporting illegals draining our social services while male illegals are supporting Mexico's economy as their #1 source of income.
Viva Aztlan!
How long before Whites and Hispanics are exchanged
Hispanics to the Southwest,
Whites out of the Southwest.
Tancredo and I wanna know if you've got a link to a site that has this info in a more digestable format
Can you do some formating on that list or give the link to the Arizona BP site?
Not all ICE agents are proficient in Spanish. Only legacy INS and Border Patrol investigators have the ability to detain and process illegal aliens. Legacy Customs does not. So there's probably less than a thousand ICE agents that have the experience and resources to pursue illegal aliens. Legacy Customs investigators need to be sent to school to learn Spanish. They have to be given access to ENFORCE and they have to be taught how to do the paperwork. Legacy INS and Border Patrol investigators should run anti-smuggling operations at least until Customs learns how to do it. Will this happen? I doubt it.
ARIZONA BORDER PATROL APPREHENSIONS* 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004** Total Afghanistan 9 1 10 Albania 4 8 1 13 Algeria 1 1 2 Angola 2 2 Argentina 3 14 17 10 44 Armenia 1 1 2 Australia 1 1 2 Bangladesh 1 1 2 4 Belarus 1 1 elize 1 2 2 1 6 Bolivia 1 8 14 5 12 40 Bosnia - Herzegovina 1 1 Botswana 1 1 Brazil 94 385 688 1,709 1,451 4,327 Bulgaria 37 46 6 8 97 Burma 1 1 Cambodia 1 1 Canada 4 1 2 2 2 11 Chile 7 8 3 7 7 32 China 77 48 13 31 142 311 Colombia 21 17 11 22 13 84 Costa Rica 55 84 41 100 134 414 Cuba 21 29 14 22 8 94 Czech Republic 3 3 Czechoslovakia 2 8 2 12 Dominican Republic 13 33 30 71 29 176 Ecuador 128 241 187 135 154 845 Egypt 2 16 6 1 25 El Salvador 802 1,088 1,134 1,188 1,389 5,601 Eritrea 1 2 3 Ethiopia 3 3 France 1 1 2 4 Georgia 1 3 4 Germany 1 2 3 Ghana 2 2 Guatemala 631 685 1,107 1,530 1,543 5,496 Guinea 2 2 Haiti 10 1 7 29 47 Honduras 392 394 471 818 862 2,937 Hungary 2 3 2 2 9 India 33 105 19 4 6 167 Indonesia 3 2 2 7 Iran 5 1 1 7 Iraq 1 1 1 3 Ireland 1 1 Israel 4 1 4 1 5 15 Italy 1 1 1 2 5 Jamaica 5 10 8 10 33 Japan 1 1 2 Jordan 1 1 2 Kenya 1 2 3 Korea, North 2 1 3 Korea, South 1 1 36 38 Kuwait 1 1 Laos 1 1 Latvia 1 1 Lebanon 1 3 2 6 Liberia 1 1 Lithuania 2 2 1 3 2 10 Malaysia 1 1 2 Mali 1 1 Mexico 716,412 516,362 371,503 396,374 438,519 2,439,170 Moldova 1 1 Morocco 1 3 4 Nepal 1 1 New Zealand 1 2 3 Nicaragua 16 18 21 44 59 158 Nigeria 1 1 Norway 1 1 Pakistan 1 8 2 11 Panama 1 3 4 Papua New Guinea 1 1 Peru 36 31 49 49 165 Philippines 4 5 3 2 1 15 Poland 113 144 85 112 75 529 Qatar 6 1 2 9 Romania 4 5 4 1 4 18 Russia 7 5 2 1 15 Saudi Arabia 6 6 Sierra Leon 1 1 Slovakia 2 7 5 1 2 17 Somalia 1 1 Spain 2 2 Sri Lanka 11 14 1 26 St. Kitts - Nevis 1 1 Sudan 1 1 Syria 2 2 Tanzania 1 1 The Gambia 1 1 2 Turkey 1 1 2 Ukraine 37 15 4 2 4 62 United Kingdom 1 2 1 1 1 6 Unknown 1 1 Uruguay 2 3 5 Venezuela 10 2 3 8 8 31 Vietnam 4 1 5 Yemen 2 3 1 6 Yugoslavia 2 3 3 1 9 Total 719,016 519,868 375,516 402,318 444,556 2,461,274 Total OTM's 2,604 3,506 4,013 5,944 6,037 22,104 * The above apprehension numbers are from the Tucson Secotr and the Arizona Offices of the Yuma Sector
Damn..damn..damn.
BUMP
If terrorists decide to blow up Los Angeles before Nov. 2, and they sneaked over the border to do it, Kerry will have something big to mouth off about and Bush will lose.
... and Kerry won't do anything about the border afterwards! Instead, he'll enhance security by doing his damndest to ban guns for citizens.
Who is surprised by that?
(1) Recall ALL Peace Corp Volunteers from overseas
(2) Conscript ALL AmeriCorps Volunteers
(3) Immediately give them all training in riflery
(4) Spread them out along the border facing South and tell them to shoot anything that moves
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