The reason the Feds don't stop it is because they are part of a plot to destroy this nation. At least enough of them are, to cause nothing to be done about this invasion.
We also need to send back the illegals that are already here. We ask them to go back. If they don't. we shoot. PLAIN AND SIMPLE!
This is the ONLY thing that will work. And I would DARE the federal government to prosecute any citizen protecting the border - something the government is unwilling to do.
'OK federal government, what’s your excuse now? If I could seal off the border in little ol’ Hidalgo County, why can’t YOU do it?'
New England is becoming all spanish all the time.
'Colder New Mexico', not 'New England'.
But it would save millions of dollars in other areas. You might have more cops on the border, but you would need fewer cops investigating crimes inside the border.
Simple and effective method of border control. And I would bet it wouldn't cost half of what we are spending now to control the borders. But then of course the government is getting this for free now from the Minutemen.AWB
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
Maybe the President aboard Air Force One can ask the pilot to fly low over the 5 strand barb wire fence and check on federal border security.
Wow. His plan is very different from the one my lib sister-in-law came up with. She thinks we should just let 'em all in. For what it's worth, I like his plan much better. :)
Oh, well! That makes all the difference. Who or what is a Waco Kid and how knowing that going to change my life?
Hear that, Bush?
I think the government is starting to find the will to control the border. I hate to say it, but I think there is big Republican money against border patrol, and that the money must be coming from the housing industry.
Because they don't want to?
I think I'll forward this article to all the morons in DC who claim to represent me.
(Ed: Bill Cavaliere was born on August 27, 1957 and grew up in Parsippany, NJ. At age 20 he moved to southwestern New Mexico, where he was initailly employed with the US Forest Service in the Coronado National Forest. He later attended the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy in Santa Fe. He was hired as a deputy with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office, and during his 18-year tenure he was eventually elected sheriff. He has since worked as an instructor for the National Counterdrug Center, and is currently employed with the Playas New Mexico Police Department. He is married with two children, and lives 35 miles from the Mexican border. He is also a personal friend of Waco Kid.)
There’s alot of publicity out there lately regarding the problem with our porous border with Mexico. It is not the intent of this column to discuss or debate the reason why there’s even an invasion. I’m here to say that not only can it be stopped, but it WAS stopped, at least here in Hidalgo County New Mexico.
A little background first: Hidalgo County is located in the extreme southwest corner of the state of New Mexico. On a map, this portion juts down into the country of Mexico, earning it the nickname of “The Bootheel”. It shares 86 miles of Mexican border. There is a single border crossing, located at Antelope Wells, and this US Customs checkpoint is open only 8 hours a day. The entire border area in the county is extremely remote, consisting of desert mountains and arid grasslands. There are literally hundreds of square miles of nothing. Nothing but rattlesnakes, tarantulas, lizards and coyotes, sprinkled with herds of cows and some remote windmills.
98 illegal aliens caught in Animas, NM
The border fence, for the most part, consists of a 5-strand barbed wire fence and, in many places, no fence at all. The remoteness of Hidalgo County’s border region makes it an ideal choice for illegal activities. Not only is illegal immigration rampant here, but drug smuggling as well. Usually unreportted in the mainstream media is the residual crime that results from this combination: burglaries of homes, rustled cattle, stolen cars. Usually all we read about are the illegal aliens, and whether it is morally right or wrong to try to turn them away. Lets get something straight from the start: as a police officer, I enforce the law. It is illegal for anyone, Mexican or otherwise, to set foot in the United States by crossing the border fence. Hence the term ILLEGAL alien. The ones that are not drug smugglers, and are not crossing with the intent to steal, I feel sorry for. I feed them. But I also catch them, and turn them over to the Border Patrol. It has nothing to do with predjudice against Mexicans, so don’t even bother going that route. Until the law changes, I will continue to do what I was sworn to do, and that is to enforce the law.
During my time as sheriff, I was constantly dealing with border crime issues. The deputies were repeatedly responding to calls regarding rustled cattle, burglarized ranch houses, stolen cars, even stolen windmills. Drug smuggling was frequent. To say the Border Patrol had their hands full was an understatement.
Then Deputy Cavalier in 1994
with 110 lbs marijuana.
I started off by sending my deputies to many advanced training classes dealing with drug smuggling detection. I also visited with New Mexico congressmen and senators to seek assistance. Finally, and most importantly, my Undersheriff and I put our heads together and came up with an interesting idea: what I called the Monthly Border Operations. We flew along the border in a borrowed plane and selected eight OP (observation posts) sites at certain points chosen to view the area unobstructed. The view from each site overlapped the one next to it. Two officers were assigned to each OP site, and were equipped with binoculars, night vision goggles (NVGs), spotting scopes, LORIS cameras and other equipment. When all 8 sites were manned, the entire Mexican border with Hidalgo County was under detection. Other officers were assigned in patrol vehicles. When someone tried to cross into the US, he was spotted, location noted, and the ground patrol radioed to intercept. All smuggling and illegal crossing ceased in Hidalgo County, New Mexico.
Oftentimes, as the patrol vehicle arrived to the scene of the crime (yes, it IS a crime), the illegal alien would see it coming and change his mind, returning to Mexico before the officer could reach him. On one particular incident, I was in the reponding patrol vehicle. The Illegal alien, already in the United States and seeing my approach from far away, simply laid down in the extremely high grass that was in the area. I stopped my vehicle and looked for him, to no avail. The officers at the OP site, however, could easily see him from their high vantage point, and radioed directions to me, telling me when to turn left and when to turn right, and eventually telling me when to stop to avoid running him over.
Boxes of .223 ammos and two magazines
taken from illegal aliens.
The drawback to the Monthly Border Operations was obvious: with a minimal amount of deputies, money, and resources, I could only hold the operations three days a month. I had to borrow manpower from other agencies, such as the BLM Rangers, NM Mounted Patrol, NM State Police, and especially the drug interdiction unit of the New Mexico National Guard, who not only provided manpower, but equipment and other resources as well. And suprisingly, all of this was done with a minimum of red tape.
For this program to be initiated across the entire US/Mexican border, and to be effective, would no doubt cost millions of dollars. OP sites would have to be chosen, constructed and supplied. Property ownership would have to be considered. Other factors, no doubt expensive, would come up. However, this cost, for the most part, would be a one-time investment, which would be a lot cheaper than the revolving-door of wasted money that we see today. No wall would need to be constructed, so politicians wouldn’t have to worry about “offending our neighbors to the south”. Border patrol agents could man the OP sites.
OK federal government, what’s your excuse now? If I could seal off the border in little ol’ Hidalgo County, why can’t YOU do it?
(Ed: Bill tells us he recently met with members of the Minute Man Project, and will file a report in the near future. A tip of the Stetson to our ol’ saddle-pal Bill Cavaliere for this article.)
In the immortal words of Eddie Money, 'gimme some water cuse I shot a man on the Mexican border, cool, cool water, I need a little water!'
"for the program to be initiated across the US/Mexican border...would cost millions of dollars..one time cost"One man,one small PD with limited resources made a difference.This is a relatively inexpensive solution to a problem that is costing American taxpayers billions of dollars.
Wonder how long his great Sheriff and great American is going to have to wait for an answer to his question?