Posted on 05/10/2006 6:15:46 AM PDT by kellynla
Who needs the government to tell us the status of homeland security? If you're not seeing five-alarm red over the perpetual chaos at DHS, you need to call the eye doctor.
The Ontario (Calif.) Daily Bulletin reported Tuesday that Border Patrol agents are now ratting out Minutemen, immigration enforcement volunteers who have broken no laws, to Mexico. Yes, we are paying our federal immigration officers to gather intelligence on our own citizens -- and then turn it over to a foreign government intent on sabotaging our sovereignty.
Deportation officers across the country continue to report that "catch and release" of illegal aliens remains the order of the day. A memo I obtained last week outlined desperate deck-chair shuffling by Border Patrol supervisors who are pulling dozens of detention and transport officers from around the country to assist in the border enforcement charade. President Bush is leading the amnesty bandwagon.
And inside Department of Homeland Security headquarters, it's color-coded cronyism as usual.
The latest fiasco involves Shirlington Limousine and Transportation Inc., a shady limousine company with millions of dollars in DHS contracts to shuttle its workers around the Beltway. That's right. When your tax dollars aren't subsidizing Border Patrol spies for Mexico, they're being used to foot the bill for "12 minibuses and 16 drivers to shuttle Homeland Security employees between the department's various offices in the Washington area" and "10 additional drivers to chauffeur department executive staffers in Homeland Security-owned sedans," according to the Associated Press. Shirlington's latest contract with DHS totals $21.2 million for a maximum of five years.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
It's employment security for bureaucrats. Didn't they explain that to you up front?
Remember, a midwestern grandmother flying to visit her grandchildren may be a terrorist and must be searched by government officials; a foreign citizen entering the US without permission can be taken at face value, without search or apprehension.
Homeland Security: "Because the FBI and the CIA weren't ineffective enough!"
Someone needs to tell Michelle that Border Patrol and the White House deny that this story about ratting out the Minutemen is true. The update is in breaking news.
Michelle is a little behind the times.
I'd be happy if they could at least apprehend the driver of a car that crashes through a Capitol Barrier .
Democrats are responsible for govt waste is what this article proves. Beauracracy, it gets so frustrating.
"Border Patrol and the White House deny that this story about ratting out the Minutemen is true."
yeaaaaaa, this is the same BP & WH that has refused to secure the borders for the past five friggin' years...
I'm gonna believe them. LOL
when it comes to border security and illegal aliens;
this bunch has about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine.
Our government in DC is full of empty suits.
Amen. A vast number of people don't understand what drives conservatism. The 'big ideas' are important, of course, but the conservatism of those of us who earn a living in the private sector (a phrase which originated from communist thinking, btw) is often borne out of watching the multitude of government leeches intentionally sabotage their jobs, their budgets and their outcomes in order to self-perpetuate. At a very basic level it is amazing to think that asking government types to simply do their jobs results in a crisis and a bunch of finger-pointing.
That needs to be on a bumper sticker.
Here's the article from the Ontario Daily bulletin (referenced by Michelle's article above):
"While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are ... "
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3799653
DHS did not deny that they tell the Mexican government where the minutemen are. They only spun it to talk about the Geneva Convention instead of the fact that they inform the Mexican government when and where illegals are apprehended by the Minutemen, thus telling them where the Minutemen are.
...Michelle is a little behind the times....
Umm methinks you are the one behind the times, check out her confirmation...
Deny Deny Hedge Spin
http://www.michellemalkin.com/
"Someone needs to tell Michelle that Border Patrol and the White House deny that this story about ratting out the Minutemen is true. The update is in breaking news."
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Yup, our government sure has the market cornered regarding credibility in regards to our borders.
"this bunch has about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine."
ROTF! how true.
It government OF the people foolish one. Not Government of the Whiny Bitchy self important Internet twits.
the only response your post warrants is my tagline.
And we are the people making our views known - as enumerated in the First Amendment. Your point is?
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