U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols (telling the Mexican government)

Daily Bulletin ^ | 5/9/2006 | Sara A Carter

[IrishMike]

While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are. According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants -- and if and when violence is used against border crossers.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed.

"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.

"This ... simply makes two basic statements -- that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."

Minuteman members were not so sanguine about the arrangement, however, saying that reporting their location to Mexican officials nullifies their effectiveness along the border and could endanger their lives.

"Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time," said Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels.

"They just basically endangered the lives of American people."

[ilovew]

I've been here for a while, thank you. And I've never had a problem with Howlin.

[Howlin]

Just wait till she disagrees with *you*

All you men with issues are all alike.

And for your information, MOST of the people on this site get along with me just fine.

It's just the jerks like you who need to lie and twist things that don't like to be called on it who have a problem with me.

Frankly, if you liked me, I'd be worried.

[JeffAtlanta]

Whoa! I just saw that admonition by JimRob on the Tancredo thread and am posting it -- he claims its a phony report.

You're right, tomorrow is going to be an interesting day. Either way, someone is going to have egg on their face and lose a lot of credibility.

[JustPiper]

Which is phony?

SNITCHING & SPYING FOR MEXICO
By Michelle Malkin

I'll keep updating my first post on this subject with reader feedback. Meantime, the Minutemen Blog has details not reported by the Daily Bulletin:

http://www.michellemalkin.com/

[TLI]

Parsing words. Many of you lawyers think that the cheap tricks that work in the courtroom, somehow equals winning an argument. This is the court of public opinion, your tricks are very transparent and carry no weight.

Spot on correct! Give that man a cee-gar!

[woofie]

Howlin is actually Mrs Rumsfeld

[Rokke]

Uh, joanie....the whole thing turned out to be a lie. Nice rant though.

[Peach]

I just read that the other thread, the one I posted on, I think, got pulled. Did I get made fun of because I didn't believe the report (initially).

Finally I just left the thread and let them have their fun. Anyway, thanks for the ping to this. You sleep tight too, Txsleuth.

[Howlin]

Agents of the American government are informing a foreign, and unfriendly, government of the movements of American citizens.

Ah, no,they are not.

[clawrence3]

Bush never called the Minutemen "vigilantes".

[Howlin]

LOL...................see there, in the time it takes to format a rant, the whole story turns upside down!

[ilovew]

**encouraging illegal foreign nationals as they marched in the streets and shut down major cities**

I don't know who you're talking about. President Bush didn't do that.

[Junior_G]

All you men with issues are all alike.

That statement alone makes it sound like you have some serious man issues of your own.

[Tammy8]

You're posting to a poster who is routinely mocked behind his back on this web site and others

Not sure what you meant by this-- did you mean to say posting about instead of to...?

My knowledge of the border issues is first hand, not sure what you mean by "high horse" there are many, many things that happen on the border that only those of us who live here really know about, care about, or understand.

I would never pretend to know more about what is happening on your doorstep than you do- but that's just me.

[Not A Snowbird]

Ahem.
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/highlights/news_highlights/statement05092006.xml

[onyx]

You're a jerk.

In fact, you're a snarky jerk for not pinging the poster you tried to trash.

[Howlin]

Oh, don't bother defending me to him.

[sageb1]

"he claims its a phony report."

Interesting. I wonder why this didn't come out when O'Reilly interviewed Juan Hernandez tonight?

[SerpentDove]

And you may not. You are a self-admitted Bushbot.

You may join the pack of little yapping Bushbots who have to ping each other to threads, because they have to travel in packs and are afraid to be alone on a thread, away from the pack.

Good luck with that.

[woofie]

LOL