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Posted on 02/11/2005 12:32:47 AM PST by Marine Inspector
Your welcome!
I've bookmarked it. It'll come in handy for future reference. Thanks for doing this. If I may be so bold as to suggest a future thread, or information added to this one, about the current state of affairs, such as machinery not working, not enough manpower on the ground to operate them, etc.? Or other things that you may be more aware of? Thanks (and crossing fingers). : )
Who are we gonna believe? Them or your lying eyes?
You know I'm just kidding you, right?
(people are kinda touchy around here lately, that's all.)
L
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are great technology, but a small piece of the overall border defense puzzle. For the size of the Southern Borders, we need lots of human boots on the ground. A few UAVs flying around, and the small number of Border Patrol simple doesn't cut the mustard!
Face it, what we have now is woefully deficient, backward, and archaic. The whole system of protecting, apprehension, temporary incarceration, and deportation needs an extreme overhaul. Will we ever get it the whole taco, I have my doubts.
Well imagine that and thanks for the reminder....BUMP!!
Absolutely! I pray we will get this long overdue overhaul. Border enforcement has been nothing but another type of shamnesty (no offense to our Border Control people...not their fault they're understaffed, underfunded, with arms tied behind their backs to boot for so many many years).
Ah, we can't fault the Border Patrol guys/gals on the front lines. Like all civil servants, they take and follow orders given from the top. Presently, with their small numbers, are still doing an awesome, lonely, and dangerous job. God Bless them.
Actually, I'm a CBP Officer. We are often confused with CBP Border Patrol Agents.
We run the ports of entry, while the BP patrols between the ports of entry.
Anyway, what can you expect from those two and their uninformed group of friends.
Your welcome.
And getting more dangerous all the time, I'm sure. God bless them all, Amen!!
And in case no one has said it to you here lately, thanks. It's really got to suck watching those boneheads in DC screw up one of the 4 or 5 things they're actually Constitutionally mandated to do. I'm not sure I could take it.
Just for the record, I'm working late in the county EOC tonight. One of our duties is to monitor police and fire radios so we can dispatch our crews in the event of a major incident.
Most days it's just your usual beatings, shootings, stabbings, drug overdoses, domestic disputes, structure fires, DOAs and the like.
Tonight however the radio traffic was more interesting than usual. I was monitoring my towns PD when I heard the dispatcher call for multiple PD units and 3 ambulances because three vehicles had plowed into a group of people who were in their yard.
It wasn't one car, it wasn't two cars, it was three cars. Fortunately no one was killed as far as I know but several were taken to the hospital.
The suspects? Several male hispanics. Identifying characteristics? Of course there were. Several of them apparently had "13" tattoos. Officers on the scene said the witnesses reported shouts of "Trece!" just before they ran these people down.
I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky they didn't have AKs, not yet anyway, or that they decided on a mass machete attack as is MS-13s calling card.
But you know how it goes. I'm just supposed to sit down, shut up, and vote Republican no matter what kind of crap they try to shove down our throats.
According to a few folks around here if I withold my vote from the pro-abortion, anti-2nd, pro-illegal alien Republican running for Governor I might just as well be writing up the Articles of Impeachment and handing them to John Conyers myself.
Well I say fooey on that.
Sorry for popping in your direction but I'm getting really tired of this crap. If Clinton were pulling this garbage this place would be absolutely apoplectic. But since it's a Republican.....well you know.
Once again, sorry for getting the title wrong. It was an honest mistake and no attempt to slam you.
Thanks again for your hard work in a crappy job.
Semper Fi, mac.
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I know you did not intend to offend and none was taken.
Most folks think everyone working for CBP is border patrol and I was just making the correction. Not to play down the importance of my job or its difficulties and hardships, the BP has it much worst off then us CBP Officers working at the ports of entry.
I’ am also sick and tired of the name calling and accusations, because I refuse to vote for a candidate, just because they have an “R” next to their name.
RINO’s will never again get my vote. If a real conservative does not run, then I won’t vote. If the Dems gain power, then the fault lies with the Republican Party, not I.
Semper Fi,
MI
GOOD post!
BTTT!
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