Posted on 05/14/2006 6:20:19 PM PDT by Spiff
Yep.
And most of the cameras were never installed or are broken.
Yes and none of you are worried about the country we share a border with that has the largest Muslim extremest population on the American Continent. A country whose border patrol ageebts go home when there are reports of criminal activity and they have no guns. I want this crap about terrorists stopped, it has nothisng to do with terrorists if it did we would hear about the Canadian border which is far more open than Mexico. No this is about Mexicans and other Hispanics. It is nothing more and nothing less.
That's being serious about border enforcement. Seriously compromised.
love that rant.
Agreed!
Poor Linus, what you put him through!!
So do I. Let's close the borders, NOW!!!
I see your point, but I'm sure that W and Harriet talked the situation through and W was very involved.
The stubbornness you speak of is in W's loyalty and is a positive character trait that can make things difficult some of the time. Again, I see your point about thinking things through, in my opinion, W could have his cake and eat it too, by taking the conservative action.
Then get your ass up north. That is where they are.
lol!
"If you had to choose, what do you think should happen to most illegal immigrants who have lived and worked in the United States for at least two years? They should be given a chance to keep their jobs and eventually apply for legal status. OR, They should be deported back to their native country." |
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"Which comes closest to your view about what government policy should be toward illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States? Should the government deport all illegal immigrants back to their home country, allow illegal immigrants to remain in the United States in order to work but only for a limited amount of time, or allow illegal immigrants to remain in the United States and become U.S. citizens but only if they meet certain requirements over a period of time?" Options rotated |
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They are at all four borders, not just the north.
No way JOSE. How much more wrong can you be???
If I remember correctly we caught some islamonutjob coming across the Canadian border for the "Millenium Plot". He was caught because we actually had some security on the northern border.
Now if the islamonutjob in question had crossed the southern border the Space Needle would be lying in ruins.
But I suppose it's far easier to imply that we're all a bunch of racists than to actually deal with the facts.
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I said we would continue our issues off of FR. Be patient.
Senate Floor Speech
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
March 16, 2005
We are seeing an increase of 137 percent in immigrants who are from countries other than Mexico. These immigrants, which are called OTMs, "other than Mexicans," are coming into our country in the largest numbers we have ever seen. But due to a lack of resources, they are often caught and released, or they are not caught at all.Recognizing our serious border vulnerability, Congress passed the intelligence reform bill last year and authorized an increase of 10,000 Border Patrol agents over 5 years. It included provisions to add 8,000 detention beds and 800 additional interior investigators. Unfortunately, the budget before us only allocated enough to cover 210 agents, 143 investigators, and 1,920 beds for detention.
The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently said:
We do not have enough agents; we don't have enough technology to give us the security we need.
Let me give you some examples of recent happenings.
In Detroit, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani was indicted in the Eastern District of Michigan on one count of conspiracy to provide material support to Hezbollah. Kourani was already in custody for entering the country illegally through Mexico and was involved in fundraising activities on behalf of Hezbollah.The two groups of Arab males were discovered by patrol guards from Willcox, AZ. One field agent said:
These guys didn't speak Spanish, and they were speaking to each other in Arabic. It's ridiculous that we don't take this more seriously. We're told not to say a thing to the media.
This is a field agent for the Border Patrol.
* * * When I first came to Congress, we doubled our Border Patrol agents from 3,000 to 6,000. We were a country that was porous, both on the borders of Canada and Mexico. But, clearly, we have had more and more influx of illegal aliens that have become a burden in many parts of our country, and now we have a security threat from people who do not live on our borders but are using our borders as a conduit to come into our country. The examples that Senator Ensign and I have just mentioned, where we are finding Muslim prayer rugs and instructions in Arabic on how to cross the border of the Rio Grande River, are just wake-up calls that we cannot avoid. So we are, hopefully, going to have the support of Congress to add a full 2,000 Border Patrol agents.But as important as it is to catch these people, we also need to be able to detain them. Today, many times, because we have no detention facilities, we will say to the people: You must promise to come back in 60 days for your hearing on illegally entering this country.
Well, guess how many come back. Ten percent come back for their hearing. What happened to the other 90 percent? We are finding them in places such as Vermont, New York, and Detroit, MI. That is what happened to them.
That's a creepy post.
Hi nic. I have to tease devolve to 'lighten' him up, lol. It gets boring telling him how good his graphics are!!
It's thinking like yours that get folks killed.
Wrong about what?
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