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.”
Fully agreed.
Agreed. Never thought I'd say it, but if Bush was aware of this he should be IMPEACHED. And if he wasn't, well.....that opens another can of worms, doesn't it?
Basically, the United States government spies on Americans patrolling the border and reports to Mexico their whereabouts in an attempt to ensure the Mexcians invading our country get through. There is no "protection of rights" as claimed by the government. the TinuteMen have not and will not violate anyone's right much less do the Mexicans have rights to invade.
This is sedition at the least!
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.
Do you actually think that any of those illegals are going to vote Republican? You seem to have your parties confused, unless that is you are one of the many Democrat moles who have pooped up on FR the last trwo years to bash Bush and the Republicans. There seem to be several on this thread.
It's 1861 all over again....
Oh come on, even on the Mexican side of the border, all they need is a cheap set of binoculars to find out where they are.
What are the minutemen and tancredo going to say now, that Bush exposed their super secret Romulan cloaking devices to Vincent Fox.
This whole brouhaha is ridiculous and tancredo probably knows it, but he has to have to keep it up for his funds to keep flowing into his and bay buchanan's PAC.
Dane, by what method should we keep non-citizens from entering our country illegally?
No democrat-mole here. Bush basher? You bet, especially after what I've seen today. And I voted for the two-faced sob, TWICE!
"If the Minutemen do nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear. "
Really? Nothing to fear from a Mexican government hell bent on getting their drugs and invaders through and our own government rats them out??
The "nothing to fear" excuse didn't wash with our founding fathers, hence our Bill of Rights, I can't imagine why it washes with you.
I think they will claim ( and it's probably true ) that the Mexicans were informed for the purpose of protecting the Minutemen from those who might try to take shots at them from across the border because it would be a disaster for both governments if harm came to the Minutemen.
I'm sure the Mexican gov would like to go to war with the Minutemen themselves but they realize that a wall would be up within a week if that happened so no more drug and slave trade for Vicente.
Perhaps 1973...
The government may not be your friend.
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