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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.”
Amen,brother!
I just saw a teaser for tonight's Lou Dobbs show. He is going to cover the story tonight.
How popular is she? I know that she liked to veto things but I also heard that she was going to put the NG on the border. What that just an empty promise or did she backtrack?
We must have drawn the right straw on this trip through the 9th... I think Napolitano was counting on them being the bad guys and has yet to recover from the shock; she's all over the map on the subjet -- hmmmm something like Hillary.
It disturbs me to the core when I try to fathom why our president bends to the demands of El Vicente. If only we knew the rest of the truth behind their symbiotic-like relationship.
I didn't think Bush could stun me anymore but he does with this one. What else does he have up his sleeve?
Should ping everyone on this subject to start watching Dobbs, maybe if his ratings soar and Britts falls FOX will get the message that Mort, Fred, etc.. are not reading our minds like they keep saying.
That's the way it looks.
All talk and no show -- the Senate passed a bill to force her to put them on the border and she vetoed it.. she says one thing and then does another.
Has he seen into his soul, too? So far we know about Putin and Merkel's souls.
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I don't have a Ping list. But I know that La Enchiladita does, because I think I'm on it.
It's about time somebody protects America from this government gone wild.
I'll set my timer on the TV.
Not at all. I am quite sure that the VAST majority of CBP bureaucrats are democrats.......which explains why the CBP is passing this info off to the Mexican Government. Let's not forget that it was socialist democrats that gave us Motor Voter, opening the door for illegal alien vote fruad and it was socialist democrats that defeated immigation reform propositions (via the courts) in California and Arizona.
Me to -- so I copied here on my reply to you hoping she'll see it and ping everyone..
Dawns on me at this rate we may need a Lou Dobbs thread every afternoon...
The 9th found our prop 200 to be legal -- it's our Governor who is holding up full implementation..
LOL! And you call me angry while you worship the biggest hyperbolic, dour, and angry person on TV.
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