[Spiff]

Kolbe has snuck language into "must pass" DHS appropriations bills for years that shuts down the much needed Border Patrol checkpoints in only his district.

Kolbe has announced his retirement after facing years of angry protestors and shout fests at his town halls in his home district. The front runner in the Primary Election right now is Randy Graf - a true conservative. Kolbe, however, has endorsed a Kolbe clone named Steve Huffman. Just like Kolbe, Huffman is pro-abortion, pro-open borders, pro-big government, etc. With that endorsement, Huffman is getting a share of Kolbe's HUGE campaign fundraising machine. Graf will be fighting that campaign cash behemoth until the Primary. He needs your help. Go to votegraf.com and see Randy Graf for yourself and see what you can do to help.

[gubamyster]

ping

[the_Watchman]

Based on this article, I would agree with Kolbe that permanent checkpoints are useless (except, of course, on the border, itself). That is, unless you place them on ALL points of entrance. Otherwise, the lawbreakers will just choose some other permanent path. Random checks are much more likely to locate offenders.

[loreldan]

Kolbe has long opposed permanent Border Patrol revision points, which he says are predictable and ineffective. Instead, he advocates roving checkpoints and has inserted a provision into Border Patrol appropriations bills requiring the agency’s Tucson Sector to relocate checkpoints on a regular basis. “The law allows checkpoints, but they must be relocated at least once every seven days to prevent predictability and ensure the element of surprise,” Kolbe said Thursday

What's wrong with that? If they know where the permanent checkpoints are they'll avoid them.

[DumpsterDiver]

Kolbe has snuck language into "must pass" DHS appropriations bills for years that shuts down the much needed Border Patrol checkpoints in only his district.

Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol
Local 2544
March 23, 2006

Jim Kolbe Assists Illegal Immigration - Mr. Kolbe has done more to hinder the Border Patrol agents in Tucson Sector, and to help illegal aliens successfully further their illegal entries into this country than any other politician we can think of. Kolbe forces the Border Patrol in the Tucson Sector to move its checkpoints every seven days, for reasons only known to Mr. Kolbe himself.

You will not find one Border Patrol agent or manager who agrees with him. Without ever making one arrest or spending one minute patrolling the border he's a self-proclaimed expert on border law enforcement (riding in parades and having your picture taken with real Border Patrol agents doesn't count). He refuses to listen to the experts who do the job every day.

Alien smugglers utilize these mandatory checkpoint moves to their advantage. We could cite plenty of specific examples here, but we won't because we don't want to give them any ideas. Kolbe also directly causes inexcusable safety and health problems for our agents.

There are no safe checkpoints in this Sector because of Jim Kolbe. He won't allow us to build them properly. Our agents are inexcusably exposed to dangerous situations at the checkpoints every day because of Kolbe. This has been going on for years.

Despite all of his excuses and despite all his wasteful government-funded studies and "investigations" into this checkpoint issue, we defy him to give us one good reason for making our jobs so much harder and for making it so much easier for illegal immigrants to get into this country.

Local 2544 represents Border Patrol agents and non-supervisory employees in the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, covering most of the State of Arizona. We are the largest Local in the Border Patrol.

[dennisw]

Isn't that skunk Kolbe gone get? I can't wait to see what kind of lucrative lobbyist job he pulls down after leaves. AgBiz perhaps?

[ArcadeQuarters]

Sounds like a good opportunity to replace a RINO.

[montag813]

With scumbag traitors like this as "Republicans", American will soon decide they might as well have Democrats in power.