Posted on 07/29/2006 6:21:36 AM PDT by Reagan Man
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that the U.S. will have “operational control” of the border by 2008 -- two years sooner than they had anticipated.
That isn’t soon enough.
And what does “operational control” mean, anyhow?
In an Appropriations subcommittee meeting on May 24, 2006, David Aguilar, chief of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, was asked how many illegal aliens would be stopped and how many would continue to cross the border once “operation control” was achieved.
“Will it be 100 percent? No,” said Aquilar. “We will always have people crossing the border. But operational control of the border will get us to the point to where we’re able to detect any illegal incursion, be able to be responsive to it, be able to resolve it within the appropriate time in order to make the interdiction or deter or turn that incursion back across from where it came, either northern or southern border.”
“Operational control,” in other words, does not envision building effective fencing or walls along the length of border. It envisions being able to see illegal aliens coming and send someone out to “interdict” them.
As long as the Administration is going to generally rely on human beings on our side of the border physically interdicting human beings crossing illegally from the other side of the border, why doesn’t it just put enough human beings on our side of the border to get the job done now.
Based on a study of the success of the Minutemen in securing short stretches of the border, the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus concluded that deploying 6 men per mile could stop illegal crossings. To deploy that many people in 3 shifts over 24 hours along the entire length of the border would take 36,000 men.
In May, President Bush announced he would deploy 6,000 National Guardsmen at the border. That is just 1 per mile.
The President also said these Guardsmen would not going to be involved in “direct law-enforcement activities.”
In other words, they weren’t being deployed with the intent of actually securing the border.
All the President needs to do now is deploy 6 times the number of troops he originally committed and give them the authority to actually stop illegal aliens.
It isn’t a question of whether the United States can gain “operational control” of its own border before 2008, it is a question of whether our national leadership really wants to do it.
Pretty simple, but will any of the "alphas' in DC do it??? It all depends on who they've whored to.
The last line says it all.
Agreed. And I say the answer is, NO.
"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that the U.S. will have “operational control” of the border by 2008 -- two years sooner than they had anticipated. "
Translation: "We need 6 million more illigal immigrants to enter the USA before the ENTIRE COUNTRY gets hip to what we are doing"
With the proper mission, 35,000 troops could have operational control in one month.
Don't we have 35,000 troops in South Korea?
"Operational Control", thats political talk for "Baffle 'em with B**l-s**t, keep 'em guessing and wanting more". The political elite think their superior to the average citizen and can Con us with thier Smoke & Mirrors. Elections are coming up, lets show 'em what B**l-S**t gets 'em!
With the proper mission, 35,000 troops could have operational control in one month.
Don't we have 35,000 troops in South Korea?
Yes, we also have 35,000 troops sequring the border in Iraq...............
Which country is more important?
....but alas....
Our leaders, starting at the top, apparently
1) don't believe there is a problem
2) think that closing the border will destroy the economy
3) don't give a rat's ass what us varlets think.
Why would anyone believe anything Michael Chertoff says? He said once that they were going to stop the catch and release program - but they haven't. He said once that foreign nationals found to be in the US illegally would be rounded up and sent back - they have done VERY little of that. His agency, in its short history (according to a media news story released yesterday) has pissed away $35 Billion in taxpayer dollars, with little to no accountability. The man has the credibility of shrimp and I think he's an out-and-out liar.
As a manager of America's security, he sucks.
"Operational Control" sounds like more BS.I don't buy the rhetoric anymore.I've come to the conclusion our government plans on doing as little as possible about illegal immigration.
We don't need lawyers who used to manage small staffs to be in charge of large USG agencies and departments. Tenet had a similar problem moving from being a Senate staffer in charge of a handful of people to becoming the Deputy and finally Director of the CIA.
General Honore brought gravitas, disipline and order into the chaotic effort of the Katrina aftermath. Bush was lucky the General was on the job.
We need "operational" control of employers that hire illegals immediately. There is no excuse for not enforcing the law now.
He also brought decisiveness and common sense along with operational effectiveness. The Coast Guard also did a tremendous job right from the very outset.
Sorry Ben, Neither the author, Tancredo or any FR hardliners believe the passage of the Tancredo/Senselessbrenner get tuf house bill will immediatly solve the problem.
What will happen is FR FROBL's will continue to make shit up to discredit anyone that does really want to stop illegal immigration.
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