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Posted on 05/11/2006 4:50:00 PM PDT by TC Builders
The Department of Homeland Security is working overtime to quell citizen outrage over the Border Patrol/Mexico/Minutemen story. The contradictory spin doctors are not doing a very good job. I'll have more in a moment.
But now is a crucial time to step back and look at this disturbing episode in a larger, informed context-- that is, as part of the longstanding battle between DHS management and rank-and-file employees over strict, tough, and unapologetic immigration enforcement. Supervisors in Washington and in major Border Patrol sectors are cowed by ethnic activists, business lobbyists, and meddling Mexican consulates. Field agents are demoralized by top-down efforts--from the White House on down--to undermine their law enforcement duties.
Most news consumers--and politicians and Washington wags--have extremely short-term memories. But people on the ground fighting this battle every day, and those covering it, don't.
I remind you of the jaw-dropping directive issued in August 2003 by then-San Diego Border Patrol Chief William Veal directing local Border Patrol agents to ignore suspected illegal aliens on city streets and at worksites in San Diego. The order was made in response to--you guessed it--complaints by the Mexican Consulate over Border Patrol arrests of illegal aliens seeking to obtain Mexican identification cards. Deputy Consul General Javier Diaz met with Veal to protest the arrests, while Mexican Consul General Rodulfo Figueroa issued a statement saying he was "astonished by the arrests because of their proximity to his office." The Bush Treasury Department, ignoring the warnings of seasoned immigration enforcement officers and FBI agents concerned about matricula consular card fraud, approved the use of these illegal alien documents for opening bank accounts--at the behest of, you guessed it, Mexican consular officials and business lobbyists.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
"The administration is currently attempting to cut off one important source of real-world information: Border Patrol whistle-blowers, who are being threatened with retribution. Agent Ron Zermeno, of the Temecula, California, office, told local officials last August that illegal-immigrant roundups had been stopped by officials in Washington, setting off a public outcry, according to the North County Times. Zermeno says he was subsequently threatened with being fired by Border Patrol management. It seems the Border Patrol is implementing new, looser rules regarding agents’ performance reviews—rules that Border Patrol agents say can be used to kill dissent within the ranks."
http://chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/2005/February2005/0205Allensworth.html
February 2005
This has the potential for a very interesting thread.
That has to be a lie because many on here say that terrorist don't sneak across our southern border, they get here in airplanes./sarc
Yes indeed. Only thing missing is a welcome mat laid out for them.
Michelle is just a *bit* coocoo sometimes.
Need to make these people wish they never took up public service. How about some 800 numbers?
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Welcome to FR, TEX06. Join the new crowd.
Or more likely of Administrations (plural) smuggling more than just people!
Think about it, what is the other thing smuggled in quantity across the border?
The little Mezzican drug legalization thing got shot down reaaaaal quick, with a little help from our little friends!
D... R.... not enough difference anymore to claim it to be a 2 party system anymore. Totalitarian Govt disguised as a democracy!
Oh our party's not to blame, it's the other party! Repeat as needed from either side!
"Yes indeed. Only thing missing is a welcome mat laid out for them."
I think Frist and Reid just laid out the welcome mat today.
Follow el dinero.
LOL, caught him with his mouth open - which it usually is!
I'm so disgusted with just about the whole lot of them. Reid, creepy little twit.
You didn't see the red carpet??
Frist should have had an up and down vote on the wall....now he seems to be in bed with Reid!
I'm confused are we being "governed" by Cowboy George II or Farmer George III?
Ping!
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