Posted on 05/13/2005 4:36:25 AM PDT by strategofr
U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.
More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.
"It was clear to everyone here what was being said and why," said one veteran agent. "The apprehensions were not to increase after the Minuteman volunteers left. It was as simple as that."
Another agent said the Naco supervisors "were clear in their intention" to keep new arrests to an "absolute minimum" to offset the effect of the Minuteman vigil, adding that patrols along the border have been severely limited.
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I hate to see this.
I met a buddy of mine yesterday who is a conservative but not quite as committed as those of us here. He said: "What's your buddy Bush doing about the immigration problem?" I didn't have a real good answer. Our mini-consensus was--pandering for Hispanic votes. Anyone here have a better reply?
how's this for a signal?
Bush isnt alone in this. Just the other day Kennedy and the head RINO McPain endorsed an amnesty plan. It seems the only thing our two political parties can agree on is giving this country away to the Mexicans. Voting against the Republicans isnt going to stop it and it seems only Vigilantes and Civil unrest by real Americans is the only thing that will.
Vigilanteism now becomes the rule of the land!!
As I sit here cleaning my weapons...................
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - FBI agents posing as cocaine traffickers in Arizona caught 16 current and former U.S. soldiers and law enforcement personnel who took about $220,000 in bribes to help move the drugs through checkpoints, Justice Department officials said Thursday.
Those charged include a former Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector, a former Army sergeant, a former federal prison guard, current and former members of the Arizona Army National Guard and the state corrections department, and a Nogales police officer, officials said.
"Many individuals charged were sworn personnel having the task of protecting society and securing America's borders. The importance of these tasks cannot be overstated and we cannot tolerate, nor can the American people afford, this type of corruption," FBI agent Jana D. Monroe, who directs the bureau's operations in Arizona, said during a news conference in Tucson.
All 16 have agreed to plead guilty to being part of a bribery and extortion conspiracy, the result of the nearly 3 1/2-year FBI sting, acting assistant attorney general John C. Richter and Monroe said. Officials said more arrests are anticipated.
The single conspiracy count carries a maximum prison term of five years and a fine of $250,000. The 16 defendants have not been arrested and have agreed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation, officials said.
The FBI set up the phony trafficking organization in December 2001, then lured military and police personnel with money to help distribute the cocaine or allow it to pass through checkpoints they were guarding, officials said.
One defendant, John M. Castillo, 30, was on duty as an INS inspector at a border checkpoint in Nogales in April 2002 when he twice allowed a truck he believed was carrying at least 88 pounds of cocaine to enter the country without being inspected, the Justice Department said.
In another instance, also in 2002, several of those charged met an aircraft piloted by undercover FBI agents that was carrying 132 pounds of cocaine at a remote desert airstrip, officials said. In full uniform, they supervised the loading of the cocaine into two military Humvees assigned to the National Guard and another government vehicle, then drove to a resort hotel in Phoenix. There, another undercover agent posing as a trafficker paid them off in cash, the Justice Department said.
The FBI used real cocaine seized in other operations, the officials said. The 16 suspects transported more than 1,230 pounds of cocaine and accepted more than $222,000 in bribes, the officials said. Each escorted at least two shipments of cocaine to Phoenix, Las Vegas and other locations, they said.
The cocaine, with a street value of nearly $18.5 million, never ultimately left FBI possession, officials said.
--- http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050512/D8A1S6UO2.html
...getting into someones campaign/retirement funds?
The second that happens is the second that the first shots of a civil war are fired.
We're like loyal dogs, obsequeously licking the slapping hand.
I agree!
Our mini-consensus was--pandering for Hispanic votes. Anyone here have a better reply?
I agree wholeheartedly with your solution ... when will the rest of the "country" get it? Washington handled a similar situation in San Diego County a couple years ago, by giving orders NOT to arrest illegals within the 25 mile area from the international border. All this is designed to keep "the sheeple" quiet.
Tell them the truth---Bush is a globalist.
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