[Happy2BMe]

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.

[Happy2BMe]

You look for a US Border Patrol agent and surrender yourself.

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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.

Once on the U.S. side, the Brazilians scrambled ashore and started looking for the Border Patrol. Their quick and well-rehearsed surrender was part of a growing trend that is demoralizing the Border Patrol and beckoning a rising number of illegal immigrants from countries beyond Mexico.

"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.

[GarySpFc]

These are illegal ALIENS, not illegal immigrants.

[swampfox98]

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.

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)

[KarlInOhio]

How soon will they learn not to cross at Brownsville?

Judge makes stand against illegal immigration (Texas)

[HiJinx]

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...

[zeugma]

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.

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.

[CharlieChan]

I don't see anything written about lunch money.
Does the BP give them per diem or vouchers to make their trips more humane and comfortable?

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 !