Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Heightened border security increasing smuggler violence
AP via SFGate ^ | 2 August 2004 | Amanda Lee Myers

Posted on 08/02/2004 7:45:39 PM PDT by JackelopeBreeder

As the U.S. Border Patrol steps up surveillance along the Arizona-Mexico border, immigrant smugglers are acting more violently toward agents, officials say. There have been about the same number of assaults this year as there were at this time in 2003, but the degree of violence is significantly higher, Border Patrol spokesman Andy Adame said Monday.

As enforcement is beefed up in Arizona, the busiest illegal entry point along the 2,000-mile border, smugglers are getting more desperate, Adame said. "They're starting to see some losses," he said, "And when you talk financial gain with smugglers and the loss of it, they're going to react violently."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalaliens; immigration; smugglers; violence
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-87 next last
To: EagleMamaMT
They're sure not going to bite the hand that's putting the slop in their trough! I think it's only going to get worse.

Those putting the slop in the trough use the Wall St. Journal as their mouthpiece. Watch the venom come from that paper over Arizona's initiative to cut off illegal alien benefits and against pro-enforcement candidates. Any hint of stopping illegal immigration practically causes the vains to pop out from their heads, profits mean that much to them.

So I agree, things are going to get much worse before it's get better, very powerful forces do not want that border controlled.

61 posted on 08/03/2004 11:58:53 AM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: Reaganwuzthebest

I'll bet you're right. And the WSJ will be sure and wrap themselves in that warm, fuzzy multi-culti blanket we were talking about earlier - all in the name of altruism, of course, for the illegals (wink, wink).


62 posted on 08/03/2004 12:21:29 PM PDT by EagleMamaMT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: EagleMamaMT

Of course, what better way to mask the real agenda of greed than to wrap it in a package called kindness, compassion and diversity?


63 posted on 08/03/2004 12:28:57 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: Reaganwuzthebest

The WSJ op ed pages just represent a foolish attitude that has no connection to the real world. Do these people not realize that they are in the process of making their own noose? I know I am repeating myself, but the current trends of importing cheap labor + the displacement of American born workers though importation of cheap labor and export of cheap jobs will produce a govrenment that will push for a European Style welfare state.

If trends continue, business owners, managers and those in the "investor class" in 10 years will wonder why they are in a 50% tax backet, + paying an extra 15% to state and local taxes and fees. Why? To support the people they displaced and the people they imported though govrenment programs.


64 posted on 08/03/2004 1:55:01 PM PDT by RFT1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: RFT1; Reaganwuzthebest

You're exactly right. That's what's coming - unless the WSJ and our elites can build some really big ovens and convince all the displaced workers they're showing free movies inside. :)


65 posted on 08/03/2004 1:59:47 PM PDT by EagleMamaMT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: EagleMamaMT

Anyone with common sense can see what is coming unless the trends are stopped, though it may be too late to stop these trends. I really do not know what is up with the mainstream Conservative movment, some just say this because of pure greed, but more and more I just think that so called mainstream Conservatives/Neo-Cons are in an echo chamber.


66 posted on 08/03/2004 2:04:32 PM PDT by RFT1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: RFT1

They need to get out in Flyover Country more so they can see what their policies have wrought.


67 posted on 08/03/2004 2:16:10 PM PDT by EagleMamaMT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: RFT1
If trends continue, business owners, managers and those in the "investor class" in 10 years will wonder why they are in a 50% tax backet, + paying an extra 15% to state and local taxes and fees. Why? To support the people they displaced and the people they imported though govrenment programs.

That's very true, unless the US has a strong and robust middle class the country will sink into third world status, and it's not a conservative position to want to see that happen. Supporters of massive illegal immigration are only looking at the short-term while ignoring long-term trends of real declining wages and rising tax burdens.

No doubt if it ever gets too expensive to live in the US those pushing current policies will simply pack up for cheaper pastures somewhere else leaving the rest of us holding the bag.

68 posted on 08/03/2004 2:25:51 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: EagleMamaMT
I've been honest and told you why I'm so against it. Why don't you reciprocate?

The silence is deafening, must be the "jobs Americans won't do" excuse is the only one he can think of at the moment.

69 posted on 08/03/2004 2:38:49 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: Reaganwuzthebest

"the "jobs Americans won't do" excuse is the only one he can think of at the moment."

Must be! :)


70 posted on 08/03/2004 2:41:40 PM PDT by EagleMamaMT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: taxed2death
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=131-01062004

"FAIR: RICO Laws Becoming the Last Resort of American Workers Facing Onslaught of Illegal Aliens in the Work Place"

Do a google on Rico, illegal aliens. There's alot there besides this article. Tell your friend.

71 posted on 08/03/2004 3:04:04 PM PDT by monkeywrench
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: monkeywrench

Thank you for the heads up.....


72 posted on 08/03/2004 3:12:20 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: Reaganwuzthebest

I have seen him in other threads, his awnsers do not go beyond the cheap rhetoric that he reads in the WSJ op ed pages, possibly the Weekly Standard. How people can not see the bigger picture, I do not know, either a lack of intelligence or a lack of education, or they do know what the big picture is and only want to line their pockets in the short term and as Eagle said, go to greener pastures.


73 posted on 08/03/2004 3:40:11 PM PDT by RFT1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: RFT1
This is what we need more of:

Attorneys Seek To Freeze Assets Of Staffing Agencies' Owners

Start jailing the employers of illegals, seizing their assets and publically outing them. That's the surest way of stopping the invasion.

74 posted on 08/03/2004 4:20:06 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: taxed2death
"......a little secret here....don't let it get out though....Bush family is from Greenwhich CT. "

Too late. 43 let it slip when he asked me to point out his old next door neighbor because 41 had told him to say hello. But he swore that he escaped CT when he was still a little boy.

75 posted on 08/03/2004 7:37:57 PM PDT by bayourod (I resent Kerry telling me that his values, not mine are the only true American values.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: bayourod
We were just as safe and sovereign for most of our history when we allowed unlimited laborers from Mexico. Despite what Buchanan said, you are not more likely to choke on a meatball because the operator is bilingual.

Typical of Buchanan supporters to hate profits and want the government to force employers to pay them wages they don't deserve.

I don't believe we have allowed unlimited Mexican labor for most of our history, but take that as a personal challenge to prove me wrong. Not that it matters, since your premise is wrong, but the number of illegals populating our prisons should at least give a clue just how safe we are. In fact I think we are damn lucky that Mexicans are Catholic and not Muslim, or we would be dead instead of broke. I do agree with you that Buchanan's meatball commercial was pretty stupid.

What is actually typical is open borders/free traders talking supply and demand out of one side of their mouth, and the God given right to control wages out the other side. Seriously, how do you figure what is a fair wage? Isn't this the exact same thing the minimum wage activists do on the other side? Better check to see if you really are a conservative, or just another self-interested beggar looking for a subsidy at everyone else's expense.


76 posted on 08/03/2004 8:05:50 PM PDT by sixmil
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: sixmil
"Seriously, how do you figure what is a fair wage? "

I always asked for as much as I could get and paid as little as I could get by with. That's fair for me.

I've never had to hire union labor, so I've been able to pay a little more to employees I didn't want to lose. Employee morale is important to me so I encourage them to think I'm paying them more than I have to and more than they could get down the street.

77 posted on 08/03/2004 8:14:34 PM PDT by bayourod (I resent Kerry telling me that his values, not mine are the only true American values.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: EagleMamaMT
"why you're so enamored of illegal aliens"

I'm not, I just dislike people like Buchanan who are trying to stir up the issue in order to undermine President Bush's support among conservatives.

78 posted on 08/03/2004 8:25:45 PM PDT by bayourod (I resent Kerry telling me that his values, not mine are the only true American values.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: taxed2death
"Ok, you nutcase, substitute "White" or "Black" in place of Hispanic. "

Anyone owning an ice hockey team who won't hire whites is at a disadvantage. Is that what you wanted?
Or how about: "Anyone in the rap music production business who won't hire blacks is at a disadvantage."
Or maybe this: "Anyone in the igloo building business who won't hire Eskimoes is at a disadvantage". Want more?

79 posted on 08/03/2004 8:39:43 PM PDT by bayourod (I resent Kerry telling me that his values, not mine are the only true American values.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: azhenfud

agreed


80 posted on 08/03/2004 9:11:32 PM PDT by KingNo155
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-87 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson