Posted on 08/26/2007 8:44:29 PM PDT by kellynla
A Border Patrol chief at one of the nation's most dangerous Southwest border crossings says the agency's mission doesn't include apprehending illegal aliens or seizing narcotics — perplexing front-line agents and angering a congressional critic of illegal immigration.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again," Carlos X. Carrillo, Border Patrol chief of Laredo, Texas, told guests at a town-hall meeting Thursday. "The Border Patrol's job is not to stop illegal immigrants. The Border Patrol's job is not to stop narcotics. ... The Border Patrol's mission is not to stop criminals.
"The Border Patrol's mission is to stop terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the country."
Law-enforcement agencies consider Laredo to be one of the Southwest's most dangerous border crossings. It is the sister city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, which is controlled by one of that country's most ruthless drug-smuggling rings.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, called for Mr. Carrillo's resignation Friday. He also questioned how the recently appointed official could tell the difference between an illegal alien and a terrorist.
"If the Border Patrol has developed a new technology that can distinguish between terrorists and other illegal border crossers without first catching them and checking them out, that is good news," said Mr. Tancredo, an outspoken critic of illegal immigration and a presidential candidate. "But if that is not the case, Mr. Carrillo's statements are extremely irresponsible and demoralizing to officers in the field."
T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing 12,000 front-line agents, said he was baffled by the Laredo chief's statements.
"It is shocking that such a high-ranking official would make a statement that is so completely at odds with the law and the Border Patrol's mission,"
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“new” laws ?
Bears repeating:
U.S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;”
According to Bush, Chertoff, and Gonzales...there’s no invasion going on. They’ve all but thrown out the red carpet for over 30 million illegals.
Do we need any more evidence that Bush is a Globalist?
No.
Bush Trying to Revive Law of Sea Treaty
Human Events, May 21, 2007 by Schlafly, Phyllis
Time to Deep-Six UN Pact Reagan Rejected
Borrowing the famous words of Gen. Douglas MacArthur that "old soldiers never die, they just fade -away." we can now see that old treaties never die, they can be resurrected years or even decades after taking what we thought was a knockout punch.
Aggressive Lobbying
President George W. Bush is scheduled to announce any day that he will breathe new life into the old United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which President Ronald Reagan rejected in 1982. Bush's National security Adviser Stephen Hadley has asked Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden (D.Del.) to secure Senate ratification "as early as possible." To defuse expected opposition, the Bush Administration has been pursuing a most unusual lobbying campaign: inviting two or three prominent conservatives at a time to the White House without telling them in advance the purpose of the invitation or who will be present. After admission past executive office barricades, the conservatives are subjected to aggressive lobbying by administration heavy hitters: usually the chief counsel for the State Department and the judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy.
The 202-page Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) entered into force in 1994 and has been ratified by 153 countries. LOST created the International Seabed Authority (ISA), giving it total jurisdiction over all the oceans and everything tn them, including the ocean floor with "all" its riches ("solid, liquid or gaseous mineral resources"), along with the power to regulate seventenths of the world's surface.
Headquartered in Jamaica, the ISA has an assembly, a council, a bureaucracy and commissions, all drawing tax-free salaries. If the United States ratifies the treaty, we would have the same vote in the ISA as Cuba-an unprecedented surrender of American sovereignty, independence of action and wealth.
Real Purpose Behind LOST
Even worse, LOST gives the ISA the power to levy international taxes. We are not fooled by LOST's attempt to conceal this by labeling the taxes assessments, fees, permits, payments or contributions.
The real purpose of the taxing power is to compel the United States to pay billions of private-enterprise dollars to the ISA bureaucrats, who can then transfer our wealth to Socialist, anti-American nations (euphemistically called "developing countries") ruled by corrupt dictators. LOST piously asserts that this is for "the benefit of mankind as a whole."
The treaty gives the ISA the power to regulate "all" ocean research and exploration and to deny access to strategic ocean minerals, many of which we need for our national defense or industries. LOST also gives the ISA the power to impose production quotas for deep-sea mining and oil production.
The ISA can require us to share our intelligence, technology and even military information. The treaty puts restrictions on intelligence-gathering by our submarines, activities that are essential to our national defense.
LOST also created the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with the power of a super supreme court to decide all disputes and enforce its judgments. Of course, there is no guarantee that the United States would have even one judge on this 21 -member international court, and it's reasonable to assume inherent bias against the United States by the anti-American countries whose representatives will make all decisions.
There can be no appeal from this tribunal's decisions, even though they would affect our sovereignty, national security and economic interests. There is no restriction on the tribunal's jurisdiction. "
Administration lobbyists claim that the original problems with LOST have been fixed. That is not believable, because the text of the treaty can't be changed unilaterally.
Bush apparently expects conservatives to be mollified by the argument that the Navy supports LOST. But conservatives are smart enough to know that it's impossible for the Navy to oppose the Commander in Chief's position.
The notion that our great U.S. Navy needs approval from foreign bureaucrats in Jamaica in order to enjoy passage through international straits or for permission to do what our Navy is already doing (such as moving our ships to the waters near Iran) is offensive and insulting to U.S. sovereignty.
It's not only dangerous to our national security for the administration to promote the Law of the Sea Treaty, it is a stupid political move that will diminish the shrinking percentage of conservatives who still support Bush. Now a lame duck. Bush is ignoring his supporters and instead pushing the agenda of the globalists who are determined to erase our sovereign borders and integrate us into various multinational structures and tribunals.
Mrs. Schlafly is founder and president of the Eagle Forum and author of The Supremacists.
The COVERT and DECEPTIVE practices used to push the LOST passage by Bush, along with the same tactics for his AMNESTY and the SPP/NAU Open and Unsecure Border along with his trade policies make this clear.
He is not really a "U.S." President. He is a Globalist CFR henchman who has snuck into the Office under false pretenses, and regards the "Oathe of Office" as a mere scrap of paper whose meaning is relative and under the control of the office-holder.
If he was a legitimate, authentic patriot, as a President...he would not be so dedicated to accomplishing these legislative objectives by the fraudulent and secretive means he has ultimately chosen.
Even worse, LOST gives the ISA the power to levy international taxes. We are not fooled by LOST's attempt to conceal this by labeling the taxes assessments, fees, permits, payments or contributions.
The real purpose of the taxing power is to compel the United States to pay billions of private-enterprise dollars to the ISA bureaucrats, who can then transfer our wealth to Socialist, anti-American nations (euphemistically called "developing countries") ruled by corrupt dictators. LOST piously asserts that this is for "the benefit of mankind as a whole."
Bush is compiling quite a "legacy" -- the President who intentionally pissed away the national sovereignty of the United States. Of coures, he may be right--perhaps America would be better off under the dominion of the U.N. and it's cast of third world thugs, terrorists and thieves.
Let’s just take our red pills and keep going further down the rabbit hole...
disgusting!
Jefferson Starship...the White Rabbit...those pills and that hole?? : )
So why does creepy Carrillo still hold the job?
“The Border Patrol’s job is not to stop illegal immigrants. The Border Patrol’s job is not to stop narcotics. ... The Border Patrol’s mission is not to stop criminals?”
Sounds to me like “the man” is sending a message.....I want to know how come some congresscritter has’nt taken the time to school this clown?!!
He got the memo, the Johnny Sutton memo.
Ramos and Compean are proof enough that ethnic background isn't the issue. The lack of will to enforce the border comes from the gringo in the White House.
How about cops on every block?
Cameras in every house?
I agree that drugs are a scourge, but the present ‘cure’ is worse. I don’t see how your plan would be better.
No, I don’t do drugs and don’t advocate their use.
Yes, I do believe in our God given rights to be secure in our homes and to protect ourselves and both of those rights have been under attack since the WoSD was declared.
He honestly told us what it was....
..and it's not to stop illegals or drug runners.
Bush almost makes you long for the days when Clinton just took money from the Red Chinese (while also selling out the country) to win reelection, doesn’t it?
Quite a legacy, indeed.
As to the topic of the thread, if illegals committing so many crimes — rape, robbery, murder, etc — isn’t terroristic, then I want to know the definition of ‘terror’ that this administration is using.
What a difference twenty-five years can make, in the character of the American president, and the composition/backbone of the nations of Europe.
Not only is the assessment of ‘international taxes’ one of the clouds that will hang over the treaty, but it would result in the transfer of huge amounts of natural resources from the U.S. to lesser developed countries, with those resource cartels managed by none other than the U.N.
Although we have not yet formally ratified the treaty, the Chinese have already successfully jumped the gun in taking advantage of its provisions by obtaining advanced sonar technology from American companies, under LOST’s technology transfer stipulations. And that sad fact will prove to be just the tip of the iceberg.
Is anyone surprised that the Bush administration is in favor of this treaty? America will lose significant sea-going rights. Our ability to explore the seabed for new mining sites will be stifled. And our national sovereignty will receive another major blow.
Is there anything contained in the above considerations that the Bush administration would find offensive? Certainly not! Mr. Bush has repeatedly demonstrated that his vision of a new world order far outweighs his duty to ensure the safety of our people and the preservation of our national sovereignty.
As for the Mexican truck program, I have also read recently that it is also being proposed that the Mexican truckers may not need to abide by the same transportation taxation, drive-hour limits, or weight limits, as do American truckers. If the proposals that were put forth under the recent ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform’ (*cough*) package can be seen as a precedent, it isn’t a huge leap to believing that Mexican truckers will indeed be granted special privileges, over their American counterparts, under this new plan.
The safety and welfare of the American citizenry is falling ever lower on our national leadership’s list of political priorities. Surely we have experienced corruption, and self-serving or agenda-driven policymaking, on the federal level before. But never to this degree. And never by as many people in power who hold both our proud national heritage and our Constitution in utter disdain.
When the promise of increased political power, economic/financial pressures from special interest groups, and the realization of left-leaning, globally-oriented political agendas take precedence over the sovereignty of our republic, the safety of its people, and the lives of those precious patriots who have volunteered to defend it, it’s time for the whisper of revolution.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
Last I heard this was supposed to come before the un this fall. Bush is pushing to get this passed with everything he has. Here's something you might find interesting. IMO, we're being blackmailed into ratifying this theft of sovereignty.
America and the Sea Treaty (1 Letter)
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Published: August 19, 2007
To the Editor:
Re ''The Great Arctic Oil Rush'' (editorial, Aug. 12):
Decisions with enormous economic, national security and environmental implications regarding jurisdiction over the Arctic seabed -- and other areas of the world's oceans -- are being made without the input of the United States. This compromise of American interests is a consequence of the Senate's long delay in ratifying the Law of the Sea Convention.
By joining the convention, the United States would greatly strengthen its ability to influence deliberations involving activities by Russia and other nations to extend their continental boundaries, as well as countless other national security and economic decisions.
These benefits would come without requiring changes to current laws, while enhancing our sovereign interests. President Bush, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ocean-dependent industries and the environmental community all strongly endorse United States accession.
The time has come for the Senate to seize the opportunity to approve American participation in the Law of the Sea before our national interests are further eroded.
James Watkins
Leon Panetta
Washington, Aug. 16, 2007
The writers, a retired admiral and a former White House chief of staff, respectively, are co-chairmen of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative.
Well said!! This Administration is a disgrace and dishonors the Founding Fathers and all the brave men and women who shed their blood for this country.
Carlos X. Carrillo, Border Patrol chief Jackass.
You won't be surprised at what it is. I'll bet many FReepers will be though. Google the order up and see.
Thanks for the ping and post!
It seems to me that most people know it's never been THIS bad in our history. Not only the polls about Congress and the WH, but in general, people I meet on the street, etc. Conservatives and liberals may have different reasons to some degree, but most ordinary Americans know things are bad for us. Now, if only all the people who know would take action.
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