Posted on 03/30/2006 10:58:24 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
REFUGIO - Immigrant smuggling is an ongoing battle for authorities in South Texas. Last week a van loaded with illegals crashed while trying to get away from authorities, leaving two dead. Wednesday 6 News was with authorities in Refugio County when they arrested several immigrants during a bail out.
They're coming from Honduras in search of a better life. They've been on the road for days.
6 News asked one of the men in Spanish, why did he come here? He said because there's work.
Another illegal said she was tired and, "we're peeling from the feet...and it's been four days since we've been eating because we've been traveling." Then she becomes emotional when she talks about why she's come here. "We want to live here because it's hard in our country...we don't have anymore strength we had to stop."
DPS trooper Jacob McEathron involved in the pursuit was cut on his face from running through the thick brush. He said, "They just drove straight through the shoulder and into the ditch...the driver and the passenger jumped out so it was just rolling and rolled into the brush."
"There's no telling how long they've been riding like that for hours and hours," said DPS trooper David Poland. "When they run like this recklessly some of them get hurt trying to get out when it's still moving. Generally you'll find a bag to keep their clothes dry or to possible put over themselves."
Troopers spotted the truck along US 77 and when they tried to pull the truck over the driver drove off the road and into the brush and about 20 illegals bailed out.
If these people put half the effort into either overthrowing their governments or reforming their political systems as they do in sneaking up here, everyone would be so much better off...
You must have lots of stories.
Another illegal said she was tired and, "we're peeling from the feet...and it's been four days since we've been eating because we've been traveling.
Agreed. Also, we could help a bit. Our crop supports for American farmers make it more difficult for the less efficient, but far cheaper, farmers of the third world to compete. We'd be better off if we supported the third world by buying their crops instead of putting their farmers out of business then sending "aid" to their corrupt leaders.
Floodgate Ping!
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I have ZERO sympathy. Blame the jackasses in Wash DC. They gave Mexicans a pass so word spared to Guatemala and other 3rd world pits that the United States is soft dumb stupid and doesn't care who jams their way in.
Blame GW and Congress. The liberal dominated courts stink too and have illegals tones of breaks
If you don't build it they will come..........I'm talking about the wall. The more talk of amnesty by our limp wristed politicians the more desperate these people will become.
I agree with you but that'll never ever happen. We grow cheap corn in the Midwest and sell it Mexico. Before NAFTA it was kept out. So the peasants in Mexico and Central America get thrown off their land, end up in cities, eventually make their way here
I noticed something weird while out working today. Hispanic road workers standing around in groups talking instead of working as they usually do. I'm guessing they're busy discussing this immigration situation. Strange sight indeed!
Anybody else notice strange activity among legal or illegal aliens lately? I feel like something fixxin to go down.
I don't care to be dependent on some third world country for our food supply, thanks.
You are now.....it's just that they are HERE supplying it!
You're missing my point, however. If, no, when the next big war comes, I don't want to be dependent on people with a history of siding with the enemy for food or anything else.
This is already an INCREDIBLY interconnected world. Plenty of critical metals only come from a few countries. Oil!!!!! We don't produce nearly enough to be self-sufficient.
To be prepared for any war, we need a strong economy. Strong economies come from freedom and limited government. Freedom and limited government means that if the cheapest sugar producers are in the Caribbean, we buy sugar from them instead of raising tariffs to allow it to be produced here, and then sending them money because their sugar-based economy is in shambles.
We still feed most of the world. I don't want to lose that.
Who is "we"? If Toyota makes a car in Tenessee, did "we" make that car? If Tyson processes chickens in Mexico, did "we" do it? We feed the world because of giant combines reaping corn or wheat in the Midwest. Maybe it would be ok to have berries hand-picked in El Salvador by El Salvadorans, rather than in California by El Salvadorans...
Whatever, but, their standards are pretty low, and I won't be buying any eccoli laden produce for my family.
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