Awhile back a memo surfaced that had come from the higher ups to the border patrol. It essentially said....take cover, run and hide. So yes, I believe it.
anyone have a link?
I don't doubt it a bit. Not so much because the guys out in the desert feel that way but because the brass wants it that way.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050513-122032-5055r.htm
May 13, 2005
Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.
More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.