Posted on 11/26/2004 9:40:23 AM PST by Ginifer
Regulations implemented this month along America's busiest southern border crossing would force Border Patrol agents to free captured illegal aliens even if they're known to be guilty of terrorist activity.
Border Patrol sources tell San Diego's TV News 10 that under the new guidelines, the criminal history of smugglers or illegal immigrants will be considered only if they've been convicted of murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape or multiple felonies in the past five years.
"If they have committed a crime longer than seven years ago, it will not be considered -- that includes crimes like child pornography, weapons crimes and even terrorism," reports the San Diego station.
U.S. Attorney Carol Lamb mandated the new guidelines in a letter sent to Border Patrol agents late last month. Though's Lamb's office was mum as to when the new policy is supposed to be implemented, border agents working the crossing between San Diego and Tijuana say the new rules went into effect Nov. 1.
Contacted by News 10, Lamb defended the policy, saying her office will handle the prosecutions on a case-by-case basis.
Three weeks after Lamb's policy was made public, Time magazine reported:
"A key al-Qaeda operative seized in Pakistan recently offered an alarming account of the group's potential plans to target the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction . . . .
"Sharif al-Masri, an Egyptian who was captured in late August near Pakistan's border with Iran and Afghanistan, has told his interrogators of 'al-Qaeda's interest in moving nuclear materials from Europe to either the U.S. or Mexico' . . .
"Masri also said al Qaeda has considered plans to 'smuggle nuclear materials to Mexico, then operatives would carry material into the U.S.'"
Last year, about 62 million people crossed into the U.S. through two tightly regulated checkpoints in the San Diego area - the crossings at San Ysidro and Otay Mesa - making it the world's busiest border crossing.
But Border Patrol agents told News 10 that in area's to the east, there are many holes in border security. San Diego residents, who fear terrorists could easily take advantage of the security gaps, say that when patrols are on shift changes, illegals by the dozens cross in those lightly-secured areas.
We're finished.
This is an insane policy. When is this PC madness going to stop?
She sounds like it.
Unnamed sources say the sky is falling. Some local TV stations are so desperate for ratings to attract used car dealership advertising that they will report anything.
Sounds like we have a few malcontent border agents in California who are trying to rally support for their public employee labor union. Bush needs to sweep the California office clean and replace them with his own people who are willing to do their jobs.
Poltical correctness is sure to be the end of the USA as we know it. Dam it! If we bag them, we should make certain they NEVER, EVER can be a threat again.
May God forbid that the terrorists ever pull off another hit within the United States; however, if they do, I believe our citizens will no longer wait for the local, state of Federal Governments to do whatever is necessary to neutralize terrorists, as they are encountered.
Are you saying that the article is not reporting the truth?
Who is Carol Lamb, and why is our safety in her hands?
Yes.
Hmmmm, well I don't know if it is true or not, I would certainly hope it is not true, but this administration does seem to do just about everything it can to promote illegals imigration and nothing to stop it, so I find it believable. Hopefully someone that knows more will post.
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Carol C. Lam was sworn in as interim United States Attorney for the Southern District of California on September 4, 2002, and was sworn in as the Presidentially-appointed United States Attorney on November 18, 2002.
Prior to her nomination to the position of United States Attorney, Ms. Lam was a judge of the Superior Court in San Diego, where she presided over a criminal trial calendar. From 1986 to 1997, she served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of California and was Chief of the Major Frauds Section from 1997 to 2000.
Impeach Carol C. Lam Immediately if not sooner!
I have captured the enemy for meat testing. Praise me. PRAISE ME!
"But Border Patrol agents told News 10 that in area's to the east, there are many holes in border security. San Diego residents, who fear terrorists could easily take advantage of the security gaps, say that when patrols are on shift changes, illegals by the dozens cross in those lightly-secured areas."
And here's what Rumsfeld said a few days ago:
This is a partial transcript of the Lou Dobbs program on CNN from 11/16/04
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/16/ldt.01.html
DOBBS: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is warning of the threat of terrorists entering this country through the same routes as those used by illegal aliens. Secretary Rumsfeld, traveling in South America, warned that enemies look for weaknesses and take advantage of them.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: The risk is that some of these human-smuggling routes into our country from this hemisphere could be used just as easily for terrorists.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DOBBS: And three million illegal aliens are estimated to be entering this country this year.
Secretary Rumsfeld also said the United States has to be, as he put it, smarter and quicker in securing our borders. The federal government's failure to secure those borders is leading individual states to take action. Arizona's Proposition 200, which limits state benefits for illegals, passed overwhelmingly two weeks ago. Now at least half a dozen other states are considering similar measures.
"Secretary Rumsfeld is Department of Defense and not responsible for controlling the borders "
We all realize that, Ginifer, I thought you might like to see what he had to say about it. And on second thought, maybe the Dept. of Defense might be better.
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