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TX: Emergency beacons aid immigrants in Texas desert
Caller-Times ^ | 3/7/09 | AP

Posted on 03/07/2009 7:46:44 AM PST by NormsRevenge

FALFURRIAS — A pair of emergency beacons has been placed in South Texas to help stranded illegal immigrants as they try to head north from the border along a popular desert trail, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

The beacons, .. are designed to alert authorities if an immigrant or anyone else finds themselves in distress in the rugged terrain.

...

The beacons have instructions in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, ...

Border Patrol officials already have placed 18 beacons in the desert in Arizona.

(Excerpt) Read more at caller.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; beacons; borderpatrol; desert; emergency; immigrantlist; immigrants; texas
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1 posted on 03/07/2009 7:46:44 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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This way to the invasion.

2 posted on 03/07/2009 7:50:33 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The welcome mats are now rolled out to the world.

Thanks.


3 posted on 03/07/2009 7:51:27 AM PST by SouthTexas (Can I have my house back that I lost in the 80s????)
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To: NormsRevenge

Mandarin Chinese?! Why? Now Arabic I could understand...


4 posted on 03/07/2009 7:51:43 AM PST by madison10
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To: SouthTexas

Nothing like being the world’s doormat for wandering souls.


5 posted on 03/07/2009 7:52:18 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

building a swamp would be a lot cheaper and more efficient


6 posted on 03/07/2009 7:54:16 AM PST by shadeaud ("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin)
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To: NormsRevenge

Let’s see we already have watering stations in case they get thirsty and the courts give away citizens’ land and free health and education to them so why not have a I’m-tired-of-walking-so-give-me-a-ride button. They should be demanding stalls put up along the way to pass out Twinkies.


7 posted on 03/07/2009 7:54:53 AM PST by bgill
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To: NormsRevenge

The One is trying to bring us tax relief.


8 posted on 03/07/2009 7:55:31 AM PST by SouthTexas (Can I have my house back that I lost in the 80s????)
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To: NormsRevenge
The beacons have instructions in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, ...

Not Arabic? That's discrimination!

9 posted on 03/07/2009 7:55:45 AM PST by bgill
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To: NormsRevenge; AuntB

And on a completely unrelated note, American tourists carrying a lot of cash are now required to wear a vest with a bullseye on it when shopping in Mexico City...


10 posted on 03/07/2009 7:55:49 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Do Gooder groups have been doing doing a similar type thing for years.

They will leave water and supplies out in the middle of nowhere - where illegals are passing through.

Humanitarian? Maybe. While it has saved lives, it also send a message back to the thousands yet to cross that the US is welcoming them to come on over....


11 posted on 03/07/2009 7:57:08 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: NormsRevenge
Silly me--just had a flash of "pushing the red button" and the whole thing blowing up.
12 posted on 03/07/2009 7:57:26 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Flycatcher; NormsRevenge

Check this out:

Mexican soldiers arrested for alleged drug ties
Fri Mar 6, 2009

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5250VM20090306

Calderon can’t even keep his own military in line. The people he has fighting the drug cartels ARE the drug cartels!


13 posted on 03/07/2009 7:58:34 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Meeep Meeeep


14 posted on 03/07/2009 7:58:37 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

if you need help,

dial the white house.


15 posted on 03/07/2009 7:58:38 AM PST by ken21 (the only thing we have to fear is fdr deja vu.)
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To: AuntB

Calderon is in a tough spot.

I wish them and us well.


16 posted on 03/07/2009 7:59:35 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: madison10
Now Arabic I could understand...

...and now I'm suspicious of you (just kiddin').

Seriously, though -- why don't we install some beacons that lead into quicksand, or over a cliff, you know, neuter the whole beacon setup so no one trusts it?

17 posted on 03/07/2009 7:59:40 AM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Landmines would be far more effective. But we need more future Democrat voters, so we’ll just put these up instead.


18 posted on 03/07/2009 7:59:50 AM PST by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: NormsRevenge

“The beacons have instructions in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, ...”

Oh, brother! So, DHS is fully aware how many Chinese are crossing that southern border, aren’t they?


19 posted on 03/07/2009 8:01:24 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: NormsRevenge
Can you image the Romans putting up milestones on the Appian Way in Gothic, Hun and Carthaginian?
20 posted on 03/07/2009 8:01:58 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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