Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Tancredo Rips Government’s Spying of Minutemen
tancredo.house.gov ^ | 05/09/2006 | Will Adams

Posted on 05/09/2006 12:40:29 PM PDT by NapkinUser

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Tom Tancredo (R-CO) decried a recently-disclosed U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) practice of tipping off the Mexican military to the location of Minutemen volunteers. According to a story in this morning’s Inland Daily Bulletin, CBP notifies the Mexican government of when and where the Minutemen are planning to monitor the border and if violence is used by the Minutemen against illegal aliens. There has not been one verified instance of Minutemen volunteers using violence against illegal aliens.

“The Mexican military doesn’t exactly have a ‘good government’ reputation. The Border Patrol has documented more than two hundred incursions into the U.S by the Mexican military, and Texas sheriffs even apprehended Mexican government vehicles that were used to ferry drug runners across the border. By tipping off Mexico’s military to the Minutemen’s location, the U.S. government is asking for trouble,” said Tancredo.

“Heavily-armed military officials stationed only yards from civilians are at least intimidating. I can only surmise that the Border Patrol bureaucrats’ spying is meant to have a chilling effect on the Minutemen’s recruitment of more volunteers,” said Tancredo.

“The Minutemen haven’t been accused of breaking the law. Quite the contrary—they have gone out of their way to aid law enforcement and ensure the safety of our border. The U.S. government has no grounds upon which to stifle the Minutemen’s constitutional right to organize,” Tancredo concluded. “I want to know the legal basis for CBP informing a foreign government of the activities of private citizens who are obeying the law.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Colorado; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 109th; aliens; amnesty; border; borderlist; bordersecurity; bush; bushamnesty; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration; invasionusa; loudobbs; minutemanproject; minutemen; mmp; openborders; saracarter; tancredo; tomtancredo; treason
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160 ... 721-730 next last
To: BenLurkin
“I want to know the legal basis for CBP informing a foreign government of the activities of private citizens who are obeying the law."

There isn't any.

L

121 posted on 05/09/2006 1:43:29 PM PDT by Lurker (Anyone who doesn't demand an immediate end to illegal immigration is aiding the flesh trade.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: NapkinUser
I want to know the legal basis for CBP informing a foreign government of the activities of private citizens who are obeying the law."

And that is the million dollar question.

122 posted on 05/09/2006 1:43:30 PM PDT by beltfed308 (Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunnion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NapkinUser
Re-read what I posted and get back to me. I never denied he worked at the department of education, so your whole point is moot.

Uh the point is that tancredo picked up a Dept. of education check for 12 years.

123 posted on 05/09/2006 1:43:44 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 116 | View Replies]

To: del4hope

Ahhhh so all we that are vocal about wanting Government to PROTECT our country are on a watch list?

GOOD I am in good company and d*mn proud of it :::::waving to one assigned to watch me:::::::;)
(Hi, hope y'all are reading all my posts and especially my tag line!!)


124 posted on 05/09/2006 1:44:16 PM PDT by stopem (To allow a bunch of third world country nationals to divide Americans is unconscionable!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: austinite
Who'll draft Articles of Secession first, GA or VA. My money is on GA.

Well GA has just put into place laws to cut off social benefits to illegals and to require employers to verify citizenship.

Hopefully others will follow suit and the problem will be contained to states to dumb to pull up the welcome mat.

125 posted on 05/09/2006 1:45:49 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: Arizona Carolyn
According to an article in News Max she is/was a liberal. That was a revelation that took me back somewhat.

wow, if Laura Bush is socially liberal, then that would explain a lot. Sad, because they have no true understanding how a very limited government would result in many of the problems, they profess "only government can solve," being solved in a superior manner in the marketplace. I know she was a librarian. If government completely got out of the education racket, the marketplace would provide superior solutions, at much less cost. It absolutely disgusts me to no end to see how people think that with "just a little more government" we can get things right. Bush doesn't realize it, but his legacy will be no way near what it could be if he only stood up to the ignorant liberals around him. Then again, he might be more liberal on issues than he admits. In any case, this revelation leaves me completely disgusted with Bush and his entire socialist domestic agenda. The minutemen are TRUE patriots!!! God bless the minutemen and damn anyone in our government that is against them.

126 posted on 05/09/2006 1:46:02 PM PDT by liberty2004
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: VOATNOW1
The word will get out to all the networks....MEDIA BLACKOUT
127 posted on 05/09/2006 1:46:30 PM PDT by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies]

To: Doctor Stochastic

They should be exempt from having any Federal Agency report their movements to ANY Foreign Government. This isn't spying, this is something far worse.


128 posted on 05/09/2006 1:47:02 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: negril
And I voted for the two-faced sob, TWICE!

One thing Bush is not is two faced. He is as straight talking as any president we have ever had. He does what he says he is going to do.

As for voting for him twice, would you have preferred Gore or Kerry? Like it or not those were your choices. Stick to that attitude and you will get Hillary. Like her better?

The immigration problem has many, many thorns and the Democrats, media, and labor unions like things as they are just fine.

You internet Rambos think everything can be done with the snap of a finger but it can't.

129 posted on 05/09/2006 1:47:14 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 95 | View Replies]

To: robowombat

I always love it when they say a cache of hundred of rounds. Two boxes of 22's are a hundred rounds and I shoot up that many just playing around.


130 posted on 05/09/2006 1:47:15 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 85 | View Replies]

To: NapkinUser

Re:

"I don't want secession, but Georgia did pass the toughest law against illegals in the nation, thank God. I love my state."

GA didn't waste any time in passing an anti-abortion law to put the test right to the "new and improved" Supreme Court, did it?

Didn't they also just put the 10 Commandments back in the Courthouse?

I sort of thought that we were going to see shades of 1861 over that one last time the Atheist majority forced it's removal.

"State's Rights", or lack thereof, is an issue that just won't go away, will it?

But secession is probably not an option any more - it didn't work out all that well last time, did it?


131 posted on 05/09/2006 1:47:53 PM PDT by Uncle Jaque (Club Freedom; Dues: Vigilance.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: NapkinUser
Re-read what I posted and get back to me. I never denied he worked at the department of education, so your whole point is moot.

The high jacking attempt of this thread by the open border lobby is working. Instead of talking about this very serious issue where our own government is conspiring with another to facilitate a non-violent invasion, they have us talking about Tancredo's resume.

132 posted on 05/09/2006 1:48:30 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 116 | View Replies]

To: Chi-Town Lady
I don't know about you but if Fox has something on Bush (like pictures of him with a donkey or something)I would just as soon have those outed and be done with. Seeing Bush with a donkey would be better than what he's doing to us

thanks for making me laugh. It may not have been your intention, but it is the only thing that made me smile, on this otherwise disheartening thread.

133 posted on 05/09/2006 1:49:02 PM PDT by liberty2004
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 89 | View Replies]

To: NapkinUser

I have mounted spirited defenses of the administration against the wild and baseless charges of liberals over the NSA surveillance issue. But if this current story is true, then the Bush administration has ordered and carried out spying on American citizens who are not committing any crimes, and supplying an invasion-bent foreign government with intelligence on the activities of those American citizens.

If true, the Bush administration has become an enemy of the American people and of the several States. IF TRUE.

IF TRUE.


134 posted on 05/09/2006 1:49:50 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: drypowder

Exactly. I shipped my son out last week. I am big time p.o.'d. No more money from me to the RNC.


135 posted on 05/09/2006 1:49:52 PM PDT by Himyar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: riri

My basic point was that anything Bush could have done in his past is nowhere near as bad as what he's doing concerning the borders and letting our country to to hell.


136 posted on 05/09/2006 1:50:09 PM PDT by Chi-Town Lady
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 114 | View Replies]

To: ARCADIA
Who'll draft Articles of Secession first, GA or VA. My money is on GA. Before we go there- we should put a million americans on the southern border; where they will either be attacked by Mexican troops or by our own treasonous feds. Let that become our general call to arms.

Why shouldn't a state or states declare soverienity at this point since the Feds have abdicated any border responsibility? Why not send a state militia to the border? We are being invaded.

137 posted on 05/09/2006 1:50:21 PM PDT by austinite
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 115 | View Replies]

To: JeffAtlanta
Instead of talking about this very serious issue where our own government is conspiring with another to facilitate a non-violent invasion, they have us talking about Tancredo's resume

And that's fair game, afterall he is the one who put this out.

138 posted on 05/09/2006 1:50:30 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 132 | View Replies]

To: All
Click Here to STOP Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Tell Congress To Say NO to 'Guest Worker' Programs!
139 posted on 05/09/2006 1:51:16 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Arizona Carolyn

According to an article in News Max she is/was a liberal. That was a revelation that took me back somewhat.

That alone would make me suspect this is some kind of a 'backdoor' attempt by the liberal media to make Bush look as though he were spying on the entire country. (even the MM) I'm going to let this one ride until I get more info.


140 posted on 05/09/2006 1:51:45 PM PDT by wolfcreek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160 ... 721-730 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson