Posted on 06/06/2005 4:20:41 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Border Patrol: Can we give you a ride to the bus station?
Posted by: McQ on Sunday, June 05, 2005
You're an illegal immigrant from a country other than Mexico. You're at the Rio Grande and you set out across the river into the US. Once you get across, what's the first thing you do? You look for a US Border Patrol agent and surrender yourself. In the silvery-blue light of dusk, 20 Brazilians glided across the Rio Grande in rubber rafts propelled by Mexican smugglers who leaned forward and breast-stroked through the gentle current.Ok, ok, you're first reaction is, "what is this April 1st?" Well, no, it's not. It's the way immigration law works: The group was detained overnight and given a court summons that allowed them to stay in the United States pending an immigration hearing. Then a Border Patrol agent drove them to the McAllen bus station, where they continued their journey into America.With Mexicans, the Border Patrol can immediately send them back to Mexico. But with others, they have to be "processed". Now, common sense says you hold them until they are processed within the system, correct? Wrong. As noted above, they're given a summons to appear, and then, with the blessings of the Border Patrol (and that ride to the bus station), they disappear into the interior of the US. How bad is it? Of the 8,908 notices to appear that the immigration court in nearby Harlingen issued last year to non-Mexicans, 8,767 failed to show up for their hearings, according to statistics compiled by the Justice Department's Executive Office of Immigration Review. That is a no-show rate of 98 percent.98%? Truly a successful program wouldn't you say? As word of this border loophole filters back to Central and South America, the volume of people coming to exploit it is likely to grow, according to Border Patrol agents.Welcome to the law of unintended consequences. And, of course try to assure me all of those 65,814 were "Central and South Americans". Hey, if you can buy the crock that our borders are secure, I can buy the crock that says nothing but Central and South Americans are using the loophole. Then again, it wouldn't suprise me if the boys and girls of the Border Patrol have been dropping off a few guys calling themselves Brazilians at the bus stop who might really answer to "Abu" and "Mohammed" if anyone were to listen closely. Or maybe not. Maybe they, the potential terrorists, just need to use a group of Brazilians as their stalking horse: Many Border Patrol agents express frustration over the dilemma. They also worry that the high volume of non-Mexicans is taking up much of their time and might be making it easier for potential terrorists to slip past. Some said they spend much of their 10-hour shift processing non-Mexicans.No telling who came across after those 20 Brazilians tied up the Border Patrol agents processing them, is there? |
Many Border Patrol agents express frustration over the dilemma. They also worry that the high volume of non-Mexicans is taking up much of their time and might be making it easier for potential terrorists to slip past. Some said they spend much of their 10-hour shift processing non-Mexicans.
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June 4, 2005
McALLEN, Texas In the silvery-blue light of dusk, 20 Brazilians glided across the Rio Grande in rubber rafts propelled by Mexican smugglers who leaned forward and breast-stroked through the gentle current.
DAVID FAHLESON / Copley News Service
Illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico often gather at the bus station in Harlingen, Texas, call friends and relatives and catch a bus out of town.
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"We used to chase them; now they're chasing us," Border Patrol Agent Gus Balderas said as he frisked the Brazilians and collected their passports late last month.
How ya doin'?
These are illegal, period.
The word seems to have lost it's meaning.
I am convinced that our so called Homeland Security is a joke. Bush had to have something he could hide behind as he fills this country with crooks and terrorists.
I predict that in ten years Bush will become the most reviled President America has ever known - simply because of his open borders obsession. Once the average American citizen wakes up and sees the hell that Bush has brought on the country he will begin to understand what we are talking about now. (And are being punished for it)
Uh-Huh...another look at 'Catch and Release' conservation programs at work, protecting the fragile environment of...
Oh, wait, isn't this about the Department of the Interior's USFWS? Sorry, wrong thread...
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
Why wait? I'm not fond of his policies as it is. And that's putting it mildly.
"They come up to you and say, 'I want my permiso,' " Agent Larry Alvarez said. "They want us to hurry up and get them out of here."
Others with the Border Patrol complained that they are being reduced to little more than gun-toting travel agents in uniforms.
Just like Jim Kolbe, John McCain and Ted Kennedy wants them to be. Why not just drive them right up to their destined plantations? The agents might be able to run over a few jobless Americans on the way and earn a certificate for efficiency.
This kind of thing doesn't happen by accident folks. Not even the U.S. Government is that stupid. We're being played for the fools we are.
No doubt about it. The wholesaling of America started in force with Bill Clinton and is mushrooming under GW Bush. Other than Clinton's sexual predator status, I see no difference in the two. I will never vote for another Bush. period over and out !
I think Bush is worse than Clinton. Bush was touted as being a conservative Christian who would right the wrongs of the liberals. Phooey!
He can't even get his judges voted upon. He sits back while the idiot Republicans gets 10 of his good nominees thrown out, while the idiots are saying they have saved the Senate by so doing. Not a word from Bush. If it had been me and I was President, I'd wade into the Republican moderates and kick their traitorous guts out. But no, we are seting the "new tone" which means giving the Democrats exactly what they want all the time.
I think we are at the place in America where the Republicans and Democrats have always wanted conservatives to be, and that is disenfranchised as voters. They are happy that conservatives won't vote for them anymore, as we are a shameful bunch, Katie Couric doesn't like us, and won't have them on her show if we vote for them. Fine!
The entire conservative base has been bending over and taking it since Bush was elected.
I agree. Even worse, in the process he has managed to lose most of the GOP conservative base.
Pathetic...
I forgot to tell you that when we were in Progresso a couple of weekends ago, we had a boy and his mother come up to us in an 'out of the way' market place.
He handed me a paper with writing asking for help and a ride! I didn't even finish reading it, just handed it back and said no.
I told my daughters they were just trying to get across the border.
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