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 mornings 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 doesnt 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 Mexicos military to the Minutemens 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 Minutemens recruitment of more volunteers, said Tancredo.
The Minutemen havent been accused of breaking the law. Quite the contrarythey 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 Minutemens 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.
This revelation just shocks me. I am dumbfounded, and angry.
Well, there certainly is a Darryl Griffen with CBP in San Diego, so that's a start on confirming things.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=CBP+%22Darryl+Griffen%22&btnG=Google+Search
No, it is not treason, according to the statute. Highly unethical, unprincipled, disgusting and outrageous, yes, but not treason because Mexico is not an official enemy of the US.
The filthy corrupt sh$thole known as mexico is our enemy aided and abetted by the US government.
So you like Bush better than Reagan? OK, but Reagan knew how to get the economy going and he always put Americans first when it came to jobs. Reagan used diplomacy to the max to help defeat the evil empire of the Soviet Union. He also rebuilt our armed forces to be the greatest in the world bar none. Reagan was a true patriot in every sense of the word.
Thanks. Now the need to get this properly identified as an invasion. Since many say we are illegally in Iraq, et al., because there was no war officially declared, it will be hard to establish that Bush is deficient against protecting us from an invasion though I am sure the Democrats will be happy to try.
I think we need a better part of the Constitution or law.
He said yes, then he said no and now he's saying maybe... sounds like John Kerry to me.
I remember Bush getting in trouble for the same thing. That turned out to be because that is what the head of the BP in Texas told him.
I wouldn't be surprised if much of this stuff is coming from the BP union, assuming there is one separate from the regular federal employees union. Unions are unions no matter where or whom and they are all Democrat stooges.
>>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.<<
The Ten Million dollar question is: When, if ever, is president Bush going to take action to stop this?
The BILLION dollar question is, how far up the chain of command does this go?
These are fair questions, so read my tagline and save the flames.
And so has Bush .. except replace Soviet Union with the WOT
Heads should roll on this one. I hope Tancredo pushes it right to the bitter end.
>>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.<<
I would like to see ANYONE on Free Republic try to dispute that.
Any takers?
REITERATE: IF TRUE
And Bush has not? Remember, Reagan granted amnesty to illegals who were working in this country. Presidents can't stop jobs from being offshored, unless they remove regulations and lower the cost of doing business. Which would be a very good thing.
Reagan used diplomacy to the max to help defeat the evil empire of the Soviet Union.
Actually, he put nuclear-tipped missles in Germany and England, and outspent the Soviet Union in an arms race. He got nowhere negotiating with Gorbachev.
He also rebuilt our armed forces to be the greatest in the world bar none. Reagan was a true patriot in every sense of the word.
He certainly was. But he made mistakes, just as Bush is doing. Some were pretty serious.
Reagan's the one who said "I can do business with a person who agrees with me 70% of the time." He was certainly no ideologue.
...I wouldn't be surprised if much of this stuff is coming from the BP union, assuming there is one separate from the regular federal employees union. Unions are unions no matter where or whom and they are all Democrat stooges....
Chill out and be surprised, and don't blame the BP Union without facts, they are asking their agents for confirmation on the article they are not all democrat stooges, they are law enforcement officers and many are/were Republicans:
http://www.nbpc.net/news/headlines/tipped.htm
also they support the Minutemen:
T J Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, credited the Minutemen with raising awareness of a problem that he said too many people overlook. "The key help that the Minuteman movement gives us is focusing public attention on the security of our borders and the difficult job that we have in maintaining it," Bonner said. "It's not necessarily doing the Border Patrol's job or even spotting illegals for them."
Bonner said he shares the desire for better security along America's borders. "Illegal immigrants are everywhere. And in many cases they're taking jobs that Americans would like to have."
He also blamed illegal aliens for eventually causing lower wages for unskilled labor jobs. "There are plenty of Americans who want their jobs. It's just most people can't afford those jobs anymore. When the jobs paid 18 dollars an hour, there was no shortage of people willing to take those jobs," Bonner said.
However, protecting the nation against terrorism should be a more pressing concern than jobs, Bonner said. "For every person we catch, two or three slip by us," he said. "When it's that easy for a regular person to slip across the border, think about how easy it is for someone who's very well trained and very well financed."
The border patrol "rank and file as a rule are very appreciative of the work the Minuteman Project [does to bring] attention to the job we do," Bonner added. At the same time, he said there is a large element of danger to which the Minutemen need to pay attention.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200509%5CNAT20050916a.html
A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale has hit Mexico.
Two million Mexicans have died and over a million are injured. The country is totally ruined and the government doesn't know where to start with providing help to rebuild.
The rest of the world is in shock.
Canada is sending troopers to help the Mexican army control the looting and riots.
Saudi Arabia is sending oil.
Other Latin American countries are sending supplies.
The European community (except France) is sending food and money.
The United States, not to be outdone, is sending two million replacement Mexicans.
God Bless America !!!!
>>Its scary that an american citizen would condone the federal government passing information along to a foreign government about private citizens who are doing nothing illegal in our own country. Why do you defend it?
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There is NOTHING that Bush could possibly do that Dane would ever condemn. Nothing.
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