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Posted on 10/10/2005 8:52:41 AM PDT by Spiff
Since 1999, RINO Rep. Jim Kolbe of Arizona's 8th District has added to "must pass" national security appropriations bills language which shuts down all permanent Border Patrol checkpoints in his district only. He's done this despite the fact that the Border Patrol insists that these checkpoints are key tools in their border security arsenal. He's done this despite that fact that the GAO has released a report that says that shutting down the checkpoints has reduced Border Patrol effectiveness in the Tucson sector by 77%. He's done this, ignoring the outrage of his constituents who live along the border who want the border to be properly secured and who want the Border Patrol supported, not restricted. The Border Patrol union in Kolbe's district has come right out and said that Kolbe's meddling "endangers" Border Patrol agents.
When the Border Patrol has attempted to find a way around this restrictive language which limits their operations and reduces their effectiveness, Kolbe has added additional language to the appropriations bills and has even angrily threatened to use his House Appropriations Committee position to reduce their funding and take actions which would "sting" (Kolbe's exact word) the Border Patrol.
In May, the House passed HR 2360 - The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2006. That bill again included Kolbe's ridiculous restrictions upon the Border Patrol in Kolbe's district. The exact wording is:
Provided further, That no funds shall be available for the site acquisition, design, or construction of any Border Patrol checkpoint in the Tucson sector: Provided further, That the Border Patrol shall relocate its checkpoints in the Tucson sector at least once every seven days in a manner designed to prevent persons subject to inspection from predicting the location of any such checkpoint.
Note that no other permanent checkpoints ANYWHERE are prohibited. Only those in Kolbe's district.
This or similar language has been included in similar legislation since 1999:
HR 2555 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005
Provided further, That no funds shall be available for the site acquisition, design, or construction of any Border Patrol checkpoint in the Tucson sector : Provided further, That the Border Patrol shall relocate its checkpoints in the Tucson sector at least once every 7 days in a manner designed to prevent persons subject to inspection from predicting the location of any such checkpoint.
HR 4567 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act may be obligated to construct permanent Border Patrol checkpoints in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Tucson sector : Provided further, That the Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is directed to submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives a plan for expenditure that includes location, design, costs, and benefits of each proposed Tucson sector permanent checkpoint: Provided further, That U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall relocate its tactical checkpoints in the Tucson sector at least an average of once every 14 days in a manner designed to prevent persons subject to inspection from predicting the location of any such checkpoint.
HR 2500 - Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
Provided, That no funds shall be available for the site acquisition, design, or construction of any Border Patrol checkpoint in the Tucson sector
HR 4690 - Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001
Provided, That no funds shall be available for the site acquisition, design, or construction of any Border Patrol checkpoint in the Tucson sector .
HR 2670 - Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000
Provided, That no funds shall be available for the site acquisition, design, or construction of any Border Patrol checkpoint in the Tucson sector .
It appears that there was an attempt to strike that and other language from next year's DHS appropriations bill. If you look at the original version of the bill, and that which was passed in the House, it contains the language. However, if you look at the version voted on by the House on 6 October, it includes the language, but the one voted on in the Senate on the 8th of October does not include that language and whole sections have been struck out. Go HERE to see all versions of the HR 2360. Yet, when you look at the final version of the bill as passed by both the House and the Senate, Kolbe's restrictions on the Border Patrol's security measures have returned.
This not only demonstrates Kolbe's continued meddling to undermine the Border Patrol's effectiveness in the sector that sees the most border intrusions, it also demonstrates the political maneuverings likely engineered by Kolbe to keep his language in the "must pass" appropriations bills.
Further, it demonstrates that it is time for Kolbe to find another career as he no longer represents the people of his district nor is he committed to securing our nation.
Graf was one of the primary organizers of Proposition 200 in Arizona, served as the Majority Whip in the Arizona House of Representatives, and was a Minuteman Project participant.
You can find out more about Randy Graf and see how you can help him defeat Jim Kolbe by going to his website at www.votegraf.com.
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I've read about this issue in articles posted at FR in the past and recall that it was a permanent check point versus a roaming checkpoint issue. At the time, I did some googling and found out which constituents were opposed to the permanent check points.
Now as I read this article, it seems to imply that Kolbe is against check points of any kind.
Which is it?
This, of course, is a ludicrous position because there are only a handful of highways in Kolbe's district that go from south to north and no other roads that can be taken north. Highways 19, 80, 90, and 191 are the only ways to get north to Interstate 10 in a car. Roaming checkpoints along those 4 highways are pointless and the Border Patrol has pointed that out repeatedly.
If the Border Patrol thought that ONLY using roaming checkpoints was the most effective, that is what they would do.
Now that the GAO has demonstrated that Kolbe's anti-checkpoint language has resulted in a 77% reduction of Border Patrol effectiveness in his district, it is obvious that the checkpoints were necessary and that Kolbe was wrong. Kolbe did not shut down the check points in his district to improve border security and Border Patrol effectiveness as he likes to say, he did so to appease fat cat developers and donors from Tubac and Green Valley.
When the checkpoint becomes permanent, everyone knows where it is.
There are plenty of routes to circumvent these check points. For those who don't want to drive sround them, they simply let the illegals out of the vehicle 5 miles south of the checkpoint and pick them up 5 miles north of the checkpoint.
In fact, this was the complaint by residents in an upscale area of AZ close to the permanent checkpoint. The illegals were bypassing thru their area 24/7.
The same problem exists in Texas.
One of the men currently invoved in Texas MM has the same problem. I don't recall his name but he is the Falfurrias vet whose ranch is close-by to the permanent checkpoint and has illegals hoofing it north across his property.
This was the same problem that Rancher Sutton had a few years ago in south Texas. He made the mistake of letting Ranch Rescue on to his property and when RR pistol whipped the illegals, he settled out of court for a 100 grand.
The problem is that the BP union insists on permanent because it is easier on the agents.
The agents are not confined to the checkpoints as you stupidly surmise. They are watching the behavior of drivers approaching the checkpoints and surveilling the areas where the drivers may drop their loads to attempt to get around the checkpoints. It is easy to spot the drivers trying to get their loads around the checkpoints, ask a Border Patrol agent who has worked one.
It is not the Border Patrol union alone that insists upon checkpoints. It is the Border Patrol from the field agents all the way up to the management. And now the GAO report backs them up on how it reduces effectiveness to remove this critical tool from their arsenal of border security tools.
And if the permanent checkpoints were so ineffective, why aren't they prohibited along the entire border and not just RINO Kolbe's home district?
I don't expect this to change your opinion or that of RINO Jim Kolbe. Neither of you put a priority on securing our border and have some other agenda that does not serve the best interests of our national security in a time of terrorist war. I just want to counter the bullcrap that you posted here.
Of course the answer is building better border barriers to stop most of the border intrusions in the first place, but of course OBLs like Ben Flickin will lie and tell you how easy it is to get around those too and that they should never be built. We can't stop everyone so we shouldn't even try seems to be their idiotic philosophy.
I am aware that the sgents patrol south of the checkpoints, but how many agents does it take to patrol 5-10 miles. And I know that if the landowner allows them they will patrol on the private land in proximity to the checkpoint, but that is a huge area.
The main benefit is that when the coyote/smuggler doesn't know where the checkpoint is going to be tonight, he is on top of it/close to it before he knows its there and much easier caught.
Anybody whose has been thru these checkponts can tell you this. Of course if you are a fundraiser for Graf and trying BS an issue, that is of little importance.
You're not paying attention. I live on the border and regularly go through the checkpoints. I talk to the Border Patrol agents. You are WRONG on this and so many other border-related issues.
I'll say it again. You cannot dispute the fact that many, many illegals bypass the permanent checkpoints.
Many illegal attempt to bypass permanent checkpoints. Some make it past them. That does not mean, however, that permanent checkpoints are useless and should not be erected.
You, and your OBL comrades think that because a permanent structure (a wall or checkpoint) may be bypassed by a few, that they should never be erected. We should just give up and throw the borders open despite the damage that would do. Talk about feebleminded lacking common sense...
I may not know more than "anyone else", but I certainly know a great deal more about this subject than you have proven to know. So, what part of Texas do you live in? How close is the border to your home? How often do you have to report criminal invaders to the Border Patrol? How many of your friends and family have been negatively affected by the criminal invaders? How many people do you know who have lost their jobs or businesses to criminal invaders? How many times have you been chased by criminal invaders as they yell, "We're going to kill you, M-----F-----!" How many friends have you had criminal invaders attempt to kill while they're stealing your friend's car to go north? How many times have you stood and watched the border and reported criminal invaders coming across near your home? How many times have you had friends have their property invaded by 50 criminal invaders at a time? You don't know crap about the border, but you certainly don't hesitate to post it.
You even admit in your reply #9 that Kolbe's constituents have a problem with bypassing illegals but you discount it by calling them "fat cat doners"
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1.I'm so sorry about the endless horror our government's lack of enforcement has forced on your friends and loved ones. This travesty must not only be corrected, those responsible have to answer for it.
2.You may be so close to the trees that your perspective of the forest may be somewhat limited. The corrupted elements of the Mexican Army bank on the dependability of fixed spots. They use state-of-the-art communications and some of the best tactical strategies out of Ft. Leavenworth (School Of The Americas). The agents in those spots can not know what's flowing around them, especially when their budget and resources are paltry compared to the bad guys. When the BP had flexibility they were actually more effective though far more at risk of danger. Moving back to erratic patrols now would result in bloodshed. Read into that what you will.
3.Kolbe's time of hobbling the Border Patrol for the benefit of his illegal-slaving constituents may be coming to an end, thanks to you and many other outraged Arizonans sick of his crap. Graf is looking really good on his second, wiser shot. That no one has played up Kolbe's "alternative lifestyle" leaves me wondering if Arizonan's are that accepting of it. The pictures I've seen of him "photo-opping" with young citizens respecting him as a senator totally creep me out.
If those are the folks I'm thinking of, they amount to less than 10% of the people involved. Remember, Spiff listed an Interstate and 4 State highways. The 'fat cat donors' live in Green Valley along I-19 unless I'm mistaken.
And as for being able to walk around the checkpoint...I urge you to try it sometime. Really hard to do around these checkpoints. But by all means, give it a shot - if you feel lucky!
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