Posted on 05/09/2006 6:21:25 AM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailybulletin.com ...
Piper, we have been infiltrated here.
I will not be civil to obvious retreads and DU trolls who are here to disrupt and demoralize.
I think you know that I do not blindly follow any pol including President Bush, but I will not rollover and ignore the Bush bashing. I firmly disagree with his immigration positions, but he has not changed his positions one iota since he ran in 2000.
I have written to every GOP senator urging them to address border security first and only.
Regarding your question about "other laws". Quite frankly if the illegal/criminal/border hoppers are first and foremost here...that is one too may laws broken. So any other laws that they could break is just one more headache for the American taxpayers.
Have been following this thread from the beginning....Plus the one denying the allegation.
I usually don't post a lot on these long threads because I hate the back and forth bantering and name calling that they sometimes devolve into. It doesn't help a thing.
You are right to seek the facts. This may take some time to play out.
Can't go any lower than you.
You'll have to pardon some of us if it *does,* in fact, look like rants.
What does it say about you that you feel the need to declare your "adulthood?"
No more gospel than the "report."
I am willing to WAIT for alot more information. Aren't you?
Onyx have you ever known 'any' White House to come out and not try to cover their tracks, it's DC for goodness sake,will you get divine truth anywhere but heaven onyx?
Sure Bill Clinton was going to come out and say I sold us out to China instead of I had inappropriate relations and anyone is going to come out and say I set up MM?
~Come on now
Simex or whatever his name is is on with Tucker Carlson saying that our government tells Mexico where it's not safe to bring illegals and drugs across.
Hey I don't make excuses for men that try to rape their own daughters. That would be you.
YOU. ARE. RIGHT.
I give a lot of latitude to other people in their beliefs on this forum.
And I resent the ones trying to take advantage of the topic, by slandering the MM.
Jim Gilchrist said very plainly at last night's rally and I heard him with my own ears: "We can win this contest under the rule of law."
The Minuteman Pledge specifically forswears violence of any kind, including verbal.
"The Minutemen believe in the rule of law. The Minuteman Project does not endorse or encourage violence; this includes making threatening statements or participating in any hostile actions against anyone. All elected officials must NOT be threatened or have their security compromised in any way! In this time of social turmoil many anti-American groups wish to cause harm to the name of the Minutemen, because they know that the Minutemen stand for peace and the Rule of Law. Therefore Minutemen must be a model of strength and personal control in a time of civil disobedience. Minutemen must respect the Constitutional rights of all even if there are those who hold different viewpoints. The Minutemen hold themselves to the values outlined in the Minuteman Pledge."
In unrelated news, Reynolds Aluminum announced a sudden increase in foil sales, raising profits by 46.8%...
The guy belongs in prison not on TV.
Then your mind is made up.
That surprises me (sort of).
I am going to bed.
"The Seattle area alone has over 24,000 registered sex offenders...
and they are legal residents."
Partly because the illegal ones are (more and more) getting deported
under "Operation Predator".
http://www.lincolntribune.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4244
It's a program that was fairly unsung...until two US government officials
were caught doing things they shouldn't have been doin'.
And I'm just posting for further clarification...and to note one
thing the guvmint might just be doin' right.
most of us, most days, just ignore you all and learn nothing
Funny that is what I've done for the past four years with your group
~We do have something in common
Most of them don't really give a hoot about national sovereignty, so why wouldn't they slander the Minutemen?
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