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A Bitter Goodbye For Border Patrol [Stockton, CA]
The Record ^ | July 25, 2004 | Emil Guillermo

Posted on 07/25/2004 1:40:47 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver

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ICE will take over the Border Patrol space at Rough and Ready Island. But the Border Patrol agents are concerned about the undocumented people who will slip through the gaps: the small-fry violators and people who enter legally but overstay visas.

Chuck De More, the special agent in charge for ICE based in San Francisco, admitted ICE won't be doing everything.

I get the feeling that they won't be apprehending as many illegals as the BP agents did.

"Frankly, we will respond to criminal-alien calls," De More said. "Our resources are more focused to criminal and egregious offenses."

Sounds like he doesn't want to be bothered with your everyday, run of the mill illegal aliens.

He added that none of the changes was made for budget reasons.

Were they done for hispandering purposes?

1 posted on 07/25/2004 1:40:49 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: NewRomeTacitus; gubamyster

This article is long, but I thought it was well worth the read.


2 posted on 07/25/2004 1:43:18 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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I don't know about over in California, but here in Arizona the local police are picking up the slack on arresting illegals and smugglers. There has been a whole rash of arrests lately.

They are just shifting some of the responsibilities around right now, giving power to different people and trying to get as many watching the border as possible while charging the local police with apprehending the ones already here.

3 posted on 07/25/2004 1:48:01 PM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
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""Frankly, we will respond to criminal-alien calls," De More said. "Our resources are more focused to criminal and egregious offenses."

I expect to see lots of gang bangers being deported. Not!

4 posted on 07/25/2004 1:50:03 PM PDT by monkeywrench
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To: DumpsterDiver

Is all this bawling about some govt. employee being transferred to another town? If he can buy a 3000 sq/ft house, I'd say he was doing pretty good.


5 posted on 07/25/2004 2:14:58 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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But soon, a new group from a different wing of the Department of Homeland Security, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement will take over.

Bwahahahahaha more like they will now be responsible for NOT enforcing the laws regarding illegal aliens...

imo

6 posted on 07/25/2004 2:19:15 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: DumpsterDiver

Great post, thanks.


7 posted on 07/25/2004 2:41:16 PM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: DumpsterDiver

Sad as it is, these folks know that requests to relocate are the price they may have to pay for their job security. I was disturbed that they were tossing out archival materials that may have helped the ICE group get a running start. You highlighted the comment from the woman citing criminals she would have personally seen deported after their sentences were up.


8 posted on 07/25/2004 4:48:49 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (Just writing it all down before they come for me.)
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To: A Navy Vet; Lion Den Dan; Free the USA; Libertarianize the GOP; madfly; B4Ranch; FITZ; Spiff; ...

ping


9 posted on 07/26/2004 9:03:17 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: JackelopeBreeder; madfly; gubamyster

The intentional crippling of America is occurring slowly but surely.


10 posted on 07/26/2004 9:17:57 AM PDT by B4Ranch (----http://www.firearmsid.com/----"Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise.")
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To: DumpsterDiver

bump


11 posted on 07/26/2004 9:24:32 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (It's a mighty world we live in but the truth is we're only passin' through)
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Were they done for hispandering purposes?

Hispandering is the trademark of the Bush administration and the one previous to that.

12 posted on 07/26/2004 10:33:31 AM PDT by janetgreen
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From the stories I have been reading there are more roundups going on. Many construction workers in vegas are scared. Something is going on.


13 posted on 07/26/2004 10:38:36 AM PDT by winodog (JFK is a double minded man, unstable in all his ways)
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"If they had told us a year ago, we wouldn't have bought a new house,"

I guess if they had been told they would have sold their old house and missed out on the $50k+ appreciation.

14 posted on 07/26/2004 10:53:40 AM PDT by cinFLA
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To: annyokie; Ernest_at_the_Beach

"Get-past-the-first-line-of-defense-and-you're-home-free" ping.


15 posted on 08/01/2004 1:59:06 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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I worked with a gal whose husband flew for Border Patrol. He was so disgusted with the lack of enforcement after he busted his a$$ to round up the cayotes.


16 posted on 08/01/2004 2:02:14 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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It's a tough job. I was talking with a San Diego sector agent a couple of days ago. They're interdicting the aliens so well that the smugglers have moved to very rough terrain in order to try to elude the agents. Consequently, the BP is taking a lot of casualties. Pursuing groups of people in rocky hills almost guarantees injuries.


17 posted on 08/01/2004 2:09:18 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett

He worked his tail off flying a helicopter and getting shot at nightly and when he'd report in, there was always a "reason" that the PD in CA couldn't round them up. Of course, that was some 17 years ago.

I don't believe things have changed, but I haven't lived in Ca for a long time. I do remember the "watch out for folks crossing the highway" signs.


18 posted on 08/01/2004 2:14:59 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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These days, the reason the PD would give him would be, "we don't enforce federal laws, that's your problem." Then the mayor starts griping about how much the "undocumented immigrants" (cuz you can't work in government and allow the words "illegal aliens" to pass your lips) cost to educate, jail, blah blah blah, and demands federal money. Unbelievable.


19 posted on 08/01/2004 2:33:26 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett

Indeed.


20 posted on 08/01/2004 3:01:56 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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