If true, this is beyond stupid.
It is time again to write our Congresscritters, www.senate.gov & www.house.gov . It is time again to write and call the WhiteHouse, www.whitehouse.gov . It's time to contact the Department of Homeland Security, http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/contactus on the failures and shenianigans of border security. Please encourage your congresscritters to reject Mccain's and Kennedy's new immigration bill that would get the ball rolling on the guest worker program which was tried in 1986 and only worsened the problem. Call the Department of Homeland Security at Operator Number: 202-282-8000
Comment Line: 202-282-8495. What's the latest news on the MinuteMen? I heard they will go after employers who hire people here illegally -- good.
But Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, yesterday said "credible sources" within the Border Patrol also had told him of the decision by Naco supervisors to keep new arrests to a minimum, saying he was angry but not surprised."It's like telling a cop to stand by and watch burglars loot a store but don't arrest any of them," he said. "This is another example of decisions being made at the highest levels of the Border Patrol that are hurting morale and helping to rot the agency from within.
"I worry about our efforts in Congress to increase the number of agents," he said. "Based on these kinds of orders, we could spend the equivalent of the national debt and never have secure borders."
Mr. Tancredo, chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, blamed the Bush administration for setting an immigration enforcement tone that suggests to those enforcing the law that he is not serious about secure borders.
"We need to get the president to come to grips with the seriousness of the problem," he said. "I know he doesn't like to utter the words, 'I was wrong,' but if we have another incident like September 11 by people who came through our borders without permission, I hope he doesn't have to say 'I'm sorry.' "
The truth is that nobody in the White House gives a Shi'ite that our borders stand wide open to terror attacks. Maybe somebody will care after the U.S. suffers a new terror attack. But only if the FBI has video tape of covert foreign agents sneaking over the border.
Yes, it would be criminal.
Does the WH or GOP have anything to say about this story ?
This kind of stupidity will end up costing our country lives, and has most likely jeopardized our national security in ways we can't yet imagine.
Anyone who believes that the only people crossing the Mexican border are Mexicans only looking for jobs is a fool.
And the beyond stupid order came right from the top.