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.”
There isn't any.
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And that is the million dollar question.
Uh the point is that tancredo picked up a Dept. of education check for 12 years.
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!!)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"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?
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.
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.
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.
Exactly. I shipped my son out last week. I am big time p.o.'d. No more money from me to the RNC.
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.
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.
And that's fair game, afterall he is the one who put this out.
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.
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