Posted on 08/17/2010 3:07:01 PM PDT by markomalley
Federal agents guarding the U.S.-Mexico border have been ordered to stay away from the most crime-infested stretches because they’re “too dangerous” and patrolling them could result in an “international incident” of cross border shooting.
This unbelievable development was made public this week by a veteran law enforcement official in an Arizona county located along the Mexican border. In a video taped interview with a conservative newspaper, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever reveals firsthand accounts from U.S. Border Patrol supervisors stationed in his southeastern Arizona county.
Middle and upper management won’t allow agents to work in certain violent portions of the border because it’s too dangerous, the four-term elected sheriff says. They also want to avoid triggering an “international incident” if shooting breaks out across the border, according to Dever’s account of the Border Patrol mandate.
Throughout his three-decade law enforcement career, Dever has been on the frontlines of the increasing violence that has destroyed communities like Cochise County, which shares an 83.5-mile border with Mexico. The area is part of the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, which accounts for nearly half of all seized marijuana and half of all illegal immigrants apprehended entering the U.S.
The crisis has become so dire that Dever created a special unit in his department dedicated to combating the increasing criminal activity related to illegal immigration and Mexican drug cartels. Officers will patrol smuggling routes along the border and target criminal enterprises that have infested the community in the last few years.
The situation along the border has become dire, the sheriff says, and his community continues to suffer in the midst of federal inaction. Congress is well aware of the situation and in fact has heard from Dever on several occasions. Just last spring the sheriff told federal lawmakers that in the 12 years he’s testified before various congressional committees, border crime has steadily increased and will only worsen.
Violence related to drug and human smuggling has risen sharply in the last decade, the sheriff said in testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. Local law enforcement agencies are severely undermanned to handle the crisis and about 37% of local criminal justice system assets have been diverted to matters relating to illegal immigration.
Okay, so were those ranches actually taken over by the Zetas or not?
Too dangerous to patrol???
THEN DEPLOY LAND MINES AND RAZOR WIRE!!!!!!
Time to sprinkle the border with M&M’s...
That’s Mr. M1A2 Abrams and Ms. M2 50-Cal.
I’d say about 100 M1’s and a few thousand M2’s should do it.
Maybe for the French. If we wanted that border patrolled, then it would be.
If we wanted it shifted south by 500 miles, we could do that too.
Superpowers can generally do what they see is in their vital national interest. We choose not to. Actually, our government chooses not to. There are ranchers that have, and maybe still are, defending their property by themselves.
Which is exactly the reason behind the triple fence that was supposed to have been built by now.
I wonder if its time for another Minuteman teaching moment. They shut down the border before with lawn chairs and cell phones. No one crossed and no one died in the desert abandoned by their coyote as long as the Minutemen were on the job.
Nothing is possible when you don't want to do it. Make the decision to secure the border, then take the steps necessary to secure it.
And build the danged fence.
INCREDIBLE!! BIG SIS and ZERO HUSSEIN are giving the Drug Cartels and Smugglers Free No Risk Virtual Passports into the United States at the expense of Our Citizens living in those Border Areas and the Entire United Stsate!!!!!!!!! Disgusting and Treasonous Actions by the entire Hussein Administration!
SARA is CORRECT - our fearless leader has NONE!!!
Too dangerous to protect our border.
Speaks volumes.
But that is just obama being obama.
Never forget who brought us this national nightmare.
From “The Kingdom”. A tremendous, vastly underrated conservative movie that makes “The Expendables” look like a coffee klatch of post menopausal women.
—Charles Askins, Jr. and Bill Jordan must be turning over in their graves-—
Posting signs like these has legal implications that go straight to the heart of American sovereignty. 0baMao has asserted that southern Arizona has been ceded to Mexico.
Gov. Brewer to President Obama ...(Must see video)
Look what they found near the Texas and Mexico border (See pix)
Predator is the answer.
This “report” has been discussed on forums that have Border Patrol Agents and it has been completely debunked—the report is hype.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/borderpatrol/messages/?msg=48078.1
Further, my son, a Border Patrol Agent in AZ, refutes this as well. He says, “Dad, we go where we da*n well please, anytime we want, wherever we want.”
Too dangerous to patrol?
Well just move the border back about 100 miles.... /s
An example of progress being made under the Obama Administration.
It must be tough to come up with new ideas to make this country look pathetic.
from the comments at source:
“Don’t need 10K. Try 50. Platoon Sized. Need to be ex-pro with some weapons connections. .50BMG, jammers for the UGS LAN. Thellie suits. NVDs. First you take out the hilltops OPs. 60/89mm Mortars or longshots. Then you start stalking the coyotes. Leaving GPS TMs for the feds to get the women and kids, killing the adult males. The drug runners you kill to the last man. Move only in the dawn/dusk hours against a backlit horizon, the Mex’s have lowlight. Deploy small teams but saturate. Clear areas for ultralights to land in as recovery systems (helos to traceable, ATV too seismic noisy, horses too slow). Give one month and then start in on dirty tricks to make the enemy fear the form of their deaths. The U.S. will do nothing. We must.”
Seems like this guy knows what he’s talking about. I wonder when it will really start and what the feds/BP will do in response?
(btw- what’s UGS LAN?)
Debunked?
Then Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, AZ is lying - http://cnsnews.com/news/article/71105 (with video of him saying this.)
Dever, a native of Cochise County, has been in local law enforcement in the county for three decades. He was elected the county sheriff in 1996.
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