Posted on 04/18/2005 3:25:12 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
The largest local union of Border Patrol agents in the country has declared its support for the Minuteman Project in Arizona, while at the same time slamming both the American Civil Liberties Union and President Bush.
According to its website, the U.S. Border Patrol Local 2544, which covers the Tucson sector of the agency, the volunteers involved in the border-monitoring Minuteman Project have been nothing but supportive.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
I can't believe I am in agreement with a public employees union.
He isn't up for reelection again but other republicans are. They are the ones who need to be pressured the most.
I know that Chuck Hagel has supported an amnesty bill but I don't recall hearing that Bush is supporting one.
This is certainly a plus for the Minuteman Project(and one they deserve).
Unfortunately,as strongly as I support President Bush, he has completely lost me on immigration.
The presidents feelings are clear enough when he calls people who are acting on their constitutional rights "vigilantes".
Giving those that are here amnesty won't do anything to prevent others from coming here.
His guest worker program is also disastrous. It doesn't do a thing to prevent any illegals from crossing the borders and what's worse, the "guest legal workers" will turn into illegals once their work permit expires.
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He better get busy being our leader as opposed to being Vicente Fox's "good buddy".
Bush ain't paying attention, maybe ignoring the hand writing on the wall would be a better description of his disinterest in a bad situation getting worse!
-I can't believe I am in agreement with a public employees union.-
I, too, am struggling to come to grips with it.
The group blames the ACLU for setting off ground sensors in the area of the Minutemen activities:
"Reports of [Minutemen] causing 'ground sensors' to go off are exaggerated because most of those are being set off by the ACLU sneaking around trying to find the Minutemen doing something wrong."
As WorldNetDaily reported, the ACLU has sent representatives to the 23-mile Arizona border area to monitor the Minutemen and report any civil-liberties abuses to authorities. Instead, said Minuteman Project spokesman Grey Deacon, the law group's people are flashing lights, sounding horns and warning off illegals and their "coyote" human smugglers from entering territory patrolled by the volunteers. Deacon claims such activity amounts to aiding and abetting illegal aliens.
The Minuteman Project has attracted hundreds of volunteers, many legally carrying guns and waving flags, from across the country. They plan to keep watch around the clock until the end of the month, intimidating illegal aliens with their presence and alerting the Border Patrol via cell phones or radios when they see people crossing.
The Border Patrol local emphasizes the Minuteman Project is "shifting the bulk of the illegal-alien traffic out of the Naco corridor."
The statement then takes the president to task for his immigration proposal.
"If only President Bush were so supportive of the rank-and-file agents," the site states. "While President Bush hangs out thousands of miles away in the White House, these people are willing to give up their time and energy to actually do something. While President Bush entices millions of illegal aliens to keep coming with his amnesty proposals and his demoralizing statements that he doesn't want Border Patrol agents chasing 'good-hearted people just coming here to take jobs Americans won't do,' the Minutemen are trying to get our laws enforced.
"The Minutemen have made it very clear that they fully support rank-and-file Border Patrol agents. If only we had such support from the politicians we have to work for (aren't we really supposed to be working for the citizens of this country anyway?)"
Agreed. We tried it in 1986 and it didn't work. All we got was another wave of exploitable workers who can't demand equal rights and equal pay with their legal counterparts.
I don't think we can deport 12 million people but amnesty would be a mistake until the executive branch can demonstrate its ability to use existing immigration laws to to close our borders and prevent the exploitation of Latin American workers who have no better choice than to try to break our laws.
It’s politics as usual. Latinos have become the majority minority – and both parties are courting their vote.
I hope people will stop talking about sensors set up at the border. Those are sensitive information that can alert migrants. I wish the DHS did not make the implementation of sensors public, if it was not leaked.
If we enforce the current law and fine employers, deportation will occur all by itself.
If we enforce the current law and fine employers, deportation will occur all by itself.
ATTENTION AGENTS:
Looking for another Federal job? Click here. Looking for another local, state, or federal police job? Click here. Be one of the hundreds of demoralized agents trying to get out of here. We have finally given up trying to keep anybody in the BP. We have received dozens of calls and other contacts over the last several weeks from Tucson Sector agents who are giving up on the BP. They tell us a lot of their friends have given up as well.
Our current "management team" in DC has this outfit headed in the wrong direction. The votes are in and our agents are fed up with the way they are being treated. The rich get richer (have you seen the fully paid moves and other bennies being collected by our upper managers while the grunts are told to pound sand?), the poor get poorer (look at the patrol vehicle you're driving, then look at the Ford Excursions some of your PAICs are driving.......can you say "needless custom wheels and tires, $1,000s in needless custom accessories, etc". Where the hell does that money come from when we're told there isn't even money to get our worn out vehicles washed half the time?).
Our President doesn't back us up (according to him we shouldn't even be arresting illegal aliens unless they're known "terrorists" or career criminals), our family lives are getting ready to take a worse beating with the ouster of the bid for shift, overtime caps, pay cuts, and the advent of the new "indefinite" details to fight "TERRORISM", our wages and rights are being cut, and our borders remain an absolute sieve (so much for any real fight against TERRORISM - it's time the politicians admit that "border security" is an absolute SHAM)!
According to their site, the Border Patrol is treated like the scum of the earth...Be interesting if they all quit...
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