Posted on 03/25/2006 11:11:01 AM PST by nj26
If you don't have access to Texas newspapers or the internet, you may not have heard the sensational news about the enormous cache of weapons our government recently seized in Laredo, Texas. U.S. authorities grabbed two completed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), materials for making 33 more, military-style grenades, 26 grenade triggers, large quantities of AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, 1,280 rounds of ammunition, silencers, machine gun assembly kits, 300 primers, bullet-proof vests, police scanners, sniper scopes, narcotics, and cash.
That sounds like a war is going on in Texas! If bomb-making factories and firearms assembly plants are ordinary day-to-day business in the drug war along our southern border, the American people need to know more about it.
The Val Verde County chief deputy warned that drug traffickers are helping terrorists with possible al Quaeda ties to cross the Texas-Mexico border into the United States. A government spokesman in Houston said "at this point there is no connection with anything in Iraq." Well, we are not so easily reassured. We wonder what our government is doing to fulfill its duty to "protect each of them [the states] against invasion," as called for in the U.S. Constitution, Article IV.
The Department of Homeland Security now admits that there have been 231 documented incursions by Mexican military or police, or drug or people smugglers dressed in military uniforms, during the last ten years, including 63 in Arizona, and several Border Patrol agents have been wounded in these encounters. This admission comes after years of pretending that such incursions were just "accidents."
Homeland Security sent a confidential memo in January to our Border Patrol agents warning that they could be the targets of assassins hired by alien smugglers. The alert states that the contract killers will probably be members of the vicious MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang (whose 17-year-old killers will be protected from capital punishment by a recent U.S Supreme Court decision).
There is, indeed, a drug war going on between rival drug gangs, but the U.S. government seems to be just a bystander without manpower or weapons to take action. Are we going to continue to leave our Border agents sitting ducks for Mexican snipers?
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) reported that sheriff deputies spotted a military-style Humvee near El Paso, Texas, with a mounted .50-caliber machine gun escorting a caravan of SUVs bringing illegal drugs into our country. Our outgunned and outmanned sheriff deputies and state highway patrol couldn't do anything except take pictures.
The Mexican government is unwilling or incapable of doing anything to stop the wide-open lawlessness on the Mexican side of the border. Our Border Patrol agents say they are often confronted by corrupt Mexican military units employed to protect and escort violent drug smugglers.
Meanwhile, the news media have shown us pictures of the just-discovered sophisticated 2,400-foot tunnel running from Mexico under our border to a warehouse in San Diego. U.S. authorities recovered more than two tons of marijuana, and it is unclear how long the tunnel has been in operation or how many tons of drugs already passed through. It is now believed that the drug cartel started building the tunnel two years ago.
The Bush Administration whines that it can't (i.e., won't) do anything to implement border security unless its guest-worker/amnesty proposal is part of the legislative package. When is our government going to protect us from the crime, the drugs, the smuggling racket, destruction of property, the endangerment to U.S. residents along our border and our undermanned Border Patrol?
In charge of protecting Americans against this war is 36-year-old Julie Myers, to whom President Bush gave a recess appointment after her Senate confirmation bogged down because of her total lack of law-enforcement experience. Her qualifications are her connections: she is the niece of former Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers and the wife of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's chief of staff.
When Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) spoke to CPAC in Washington, DC on February 9, he said: "We have to work with Mexico because, like it or not, we are joined by a common border. We are in a sense married, and we have to make the marriage work because we cannot get a divorce."
Cornyn seems to have forgotten that Texas was once married to Mexico, and Texas didn't like it. Texas fought a war for independence, successfully "divorced" Mexico, and later came into the United States. Not many Americans want to be "married" to any other country, but some powerful people are working for open borders among all North American countries. When they talk about "comprehensive" reform, that means including guest-worker/amnesty as part of any border-security legislation.
Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) says that if you visit the border, you will find that almost everyone who lives there is armed for protection from illegals. Just imagine if you had to carry a gun when you go to the grocery store or take your kids to school!
For the best up-to-date analysis of what our government should do, read Rep. Hayworth's new book called Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror. He calls for a security fence, 10,000 border agents, enforcement of penalties on employers who hire illegal aliens, cooperation between the feds and our 700,000 local and state police officers to enforce our immigration laws, more detention centers to keep illegals until they can be deported, and an end to the racket of giving U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens.
Thanx for the ping but I grow tired of defending humanity against the goosestepping masters of America's trailer parks. Feel free to circle jerk each other without my input. Have fun boys.'
Aww, thanks for the welcome back....BTW, your "imput" has always been "output" -- the kind that swirls down the john.
But in any case, now I can go back to the business of exposing FR's anti-America Open Border Lobbyists/traitors, those who foolishly defend the illegal invasion of our country, and ranting Puk..Poodle Dog loons who beg mods to censor other Freepers.
Agreed.
Bump, but do not expect the Bush administration to do anything. All Bush cares about is cheap labor for the rich.
to be fair, Bush got this crisis dumped on him after MANY presidents did nothing for so long! and there is still not enough support from our legislators. having said that, the conservatives are NOW responsible.
Our globalist President isn't going to defend what he intends to erase!
The only line of defense Texas has are the brave sheriffs of 16 border counties that met last week in El Paso. Our pretty governor was not at the meeting because it may have been his beauty shop day...for his campaign photos, you know. These terrific sheriffs are the ultimate arm of the law and are getting threats agains themselves and their families from the Mexican criminal who are invading our country 24/7 and those on need to rise up soon and let these lawmen know that we are there to help them, because our Texas governor and our Texan president are AWOL in this war.
Oops...a line got dropped somehow. Should read: These terrific sheriffs are the ultimate arm of the law and are getting threats against themselves and their families from the Mexican criminals who are invading our country 24/7 and those on this side of the border who are aiding and abetting them while accepting bribes. We Texans need to rise up soon and let these lawmen know that we are there to help them, because our Texas governor and our Texan president are AWOL in this war.
bump
So how do you feel about the 500,000 protesters waving Mexican Flags in Los Angeles Saturday?
Hey if they can march to some LA government buidling today and take down the American flag then I would say the RINOs are already to bend over.
Quite strange that there is no illegals march on DC.
You really need a number 5: Station Marine sharpshooters (aren't they all?) along the border.
Not if field sentences are carried out.
After a brief and fair "trial", of course!
Every illegal caught should be required to build walls on the border for 30 days before deportation as a fine for the crime.
What the heck, we could get our borders built up for free!
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