Posted on 02/26/2007 6:30:28 AM PST by yoe
FSM Contributing Editor Michael Cutler asks the incredible question: Who is a bigger threat to our border security, armed thugs or overzealous U.S. Attorneys who prosecute our own law enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents?
Last Friday, in an article titled “Smugglers Raise Stakes in Fight Over Border Rule,” Jerry Seper of The Washington Times reported a phenomenon that has been well known to U.S. citizens who live on the Mexican border. To state it succinctly, towns that are on smuggling routes are under siege by heavily armed drug and human smugglers.
These criminals have no respect for our laws and no fear of our police, Border Patrol or National Guard. Recently they confronted National Guard troops who were stationed along the border in accordance with the much ballyhooed field operation known as "Operation Jumpstart." The unarmed National Guard troops followed their rules of engagement and retreated in the face of the intruders whose identities, intentions and cargo will never be known.
We asked the administration for "boots on the ground;” instead we got running shoes. The thugs who chased our “National Guard” spit in the eyes of our military and got away with it. When our Guardsmen ran away, they proved to the criminals that there is no reason to fear crossing our borders. It was confirmed for them that it isn’t necessary to try to sneak in to the United States. Just bring some serious fire power and you will most likely be able to go wherever you want, and do whatever you want.
Meanwhile the administration keeps reminding us that we are waging a war against terrorists. Someone needs to remind the administration of that. If we are to protect our nation against terrorist attacks, the most sensible thing we can do is to try to keep the terrorists from entering our country and killing our citizens.
Clearly our military officials understand this basic principle. Border Patrol agents have been assigned to the Iraqi borders to help keep terrorists and insurgents out of that beleaguered country. But at home, all of Washington is still playing games with the security of our own nation.
The assignment of National Guard troops along our nation's borders to augment the outnumbered Border Patrol would have made good sense in the weeks and months after the attacks of 9/11, but back then the administration refused to do it. When Congress authorized the funds to hire additional special agents for ICE and the Border Patrol, the administration slashed the number of agents to be hired. The fact that a handful of National Guard troops have been assigned to our border more than five years after 9/11 takes the concept of "Too little- To late!" to a new level.
The administration is claiming that the National Guard troops will be removed once an adequate number of Border Patrol agents have been hired and deployed – hence the name “Operation Jumpstart.” We still need to hire thousands of Border Patrol agents and special agents for ICE, but the track record of this administration is not encouraging at all. And worse, it is highly likely the administration intends to remove troops if they ever manage to get the disastrous Guest Worker Amnesty program rammed through the Congress.
By now, most Americans are well aware of the outrageous persecution of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, along with a number of other Border Patrol agents and local sheriffs who took their oaths of office seriously and attempted to interdict smugglers entering the United States illegally. Simple physical altercations with criminal aliens who resisted arrest have resulted in the prosecution of law enforcement officers, while criminal aliens have been awarded for testifying against them. As is clear from the Washington Times article, the bad guys are becoming emboldened to violate our borders, engage in shootouts and attack our law enforcement officers.
Jerry Seper reported this final and frightening fact:
MS-13 members also reportedly have accepted contracts to assassinate Border Patrol agents to intimidate and frighten agents away from the border.
This brings to mind the question: Who poses a greater threat to the well-being of our Border Patrol, National Guards and law enforcement officials? Armed smugglers…or federal prosecutors such as Johnny Sutton, the United States Attorney who was behind the prosecution of Ramos and Compean? Who is more likely to intimidate our guards?
And what has our country come to that I would even ask these questions?
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Michael Cutler is a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a well-respected authority on immigration and border security issues.
Seems that whoever hired MS-13 has the same goal as Johnny Sutton. Maybe Johnny Sutton and MS-13 are on the same payroll.
Build me a tower and give me a sniper rifle and MRE. I think after a day of smugglers getting their brains shot out, they might think differently.
Johnny Sutton get his orders beamed directly to him from Mexico City through an implant in his molar. AG Gonzalez flies down from DC in an SR-71 periodically to check in.
It is pretty clear that the drug money has corrupted the federal government at the highest levels. Meanwhile local (texas) talk radio is reporting illegals are massing in the hundreds and charging accross our border.
No. He gets his orders indirectly from the white house through the justice department. The orders originate in Mexico City and are transmitted to Washington through diplomatic channels. The letters are posted on various web sites.
President Bush is our #1 RINO. Only 23 months left before he leaves office. It can't come soon enough.
In English, Spanish, or Esperanto?
If you have to ask you must not be able to read so it won't make any difference.
For starters, let me try and clue you in: if you find yourself in legal difficulty in a foreign nation, then your government will conduct inquiries, and maybe even advocate, on your behalf. You don't need some internet conspiracy theorist to explain to you otherwise.
No need for that. Our Justice Department is doing a fine job of intimidating Border Patrol Agents.
Will do. Thank you. But will my computer stand the stench?
I see the numbers are rising. Thank goodness.
I would sign the petition, but they want to know too much information about one.
Please keep posting that petion so we can see how the numbers are rising.
Regards.
Anyone who doesn't think drug money buys allot of influence on both sides of the border is in dreamland.
I still question how the drug dealer who got shot in the rear was driving a vehicle with Texas license plates. That tidbit seems to have gotten lost in the muck of that case.
How did the perp (a resident of Mexico) get access that van? Who is the actual (Texas registered) owner of that van? What connection does the van owner have to the Mexican perp?
Just that one tidbit would seem to reveal allot of information. And maybe that is why no one else is asking those questions -- the answers would reveal allot of information that people in high places don't want revealed.
BTTT
There are no higher sources for protection -- reason, "they are merely doing jobs that ordinary Americans refuse to do" and our businesses "need cheaper labor."
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