Posted on 12/18/2009 8:58:56 AM PST by AuntB
Alarid...... while serving in the Army and the Marines, including two tours in Iraq, and returned to Southern California to fulfill a goal of serving in law enforcement.
But, early last year, after just a few months as a customs inspector, he was waving in trucks from Mexico carrying loads of marijuana and illegal immigrants. He pocketed some $200,000 in cash that paid for, as far as the government could tell, a $15,000 motorcycle, flat-screen televisions, a laptop computer and more.
Some investigators believe that Mr. Alarid, 32, who was paid off by a Mexican smuggling crew that included several members of his family, intended to work for smugglers all along.
Mr. Alarid’s case is not the only one that has law enforcement officials worried that Mexican traffickers — have stepped up their efforts to corrupt the border police.
[cartels] research potential targets, anticorruption investigators said, exploiting the cross-border clans and relationships that define the region, offering money, sex, whatever it takes.....that traffickers are pulling out the stops, even soliciting some of their own operatives to apply for jobs.
“There have been verifiable instances where people were directed to C.B.P. to apply for positions only for the purpose of enhancing the goals of criminal organizations. They had been selected because they had no criminal record; a background investigation would not develop derogatory information.”
Along the border, many residents have family members on both sides. Generations of residents have been accustomed to passing back and forth relatively freely, often daily, and exchanging goods, legal or not.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Mexican cartels looking to exploit gang connections in U.S. military http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408794/posts
Immigrant soldiers receive expedited naturalization. A recent report from the Immigration Policy Center said that as of June 30 there were 114,601 foreign-born individuals serving in the U.S. armed forces or about 7.91 percent of the 1.4 million military personnel on active duty.
And between Oct. 1, 2008 and Sept. 30, 2009, 10,505 immigrant soldiers became citizens, the report said.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1381853.html
“114,601 foreign-born individuals serving in the U.S. armed forces”
Considering the Mexican military is escorting drug shipments across the border and our side is being told to “stand down” in any firefight situation with Mexican military in uniform on US soil, there is deep infiltration and a culture of corruption within both governments.
These articles are forwarded to us by our retired border agents (NAFBPO)
More:
PHARR - Police are asking for your help in identifying two men seen driving away in a Border Patrol agent’s car.
The theft happened Tuesday night at a health club in Pharr. Two men walk in, one talks to the clerk and the other grabs a set of keys.
The two men then leave in a silver 2007 Mazda 3. Inside the car were the border patrol agent’s uniform, badge, and other credentials.
If you have any information on the case you’re asked to call Pharr Crimestoppers at 787-TIPS.
More on that from NAFBPO
DHS investigates counterfeit operation
Published 17 December 2009
DHS suspects that there is a connection between the sale of counterfeit clothing and funding of terrorist actitivites; the Fresno police raids a clothing store in Fresno, California, and confiscated half a million dollars worth of phony designer jeans, T-shirts, handbags, and shoes.
After a huge bust at a downtown Fresno clothing store involving counterfeit merchandise, KFSN-TV Fresno wanted to know just exactly why homeland security had gotten involved. DHS experts say counterfeit clothing sales are often linked to drug trafficking and terrorist activities.
Fresno police raided Jazzy Jeans N Things clothing store on Fresno and F Street. They confiscated half a million dollars worth of phony designer jeans, T-shirts, handbags, and shoes. The store’s owner, Bobby Griffin — also known as Bobby Smallwood — was arrested on felony charges of possession and sale of counterfeit merchandise.
Sergeant Ron Grimm, part of the homeland security team within the Fresno police department, says he has been told that counterfeit items, whether it is clothes or airplane parts, are often linked to organized crime and sometimes even international terrorism. In the case of Jazzy Jeans he is not really sure. Grimm said, “There is very little likelihood that there is a direct connection to international terrorism based on this investigation. However, the profits from counterfeit merchandise have been identified as supporting other criminal enterprises. That’s the message we want to get across.”
The investigation is far from over. Police wants to know who provided all the cash to buy the counterfeit merchandise and where the profits from the operation have gone.
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http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dhs-investigates-counterfeit-operation
I’ve read Muslims are doing this as well. Encouraging American Muslims to join the military, get trained and then join the fight after their service. Sounds familiar to anyone who has read of the fall of the Roman Empire, and their military.
This can be handled by closing the Mexican border, deporting illegal aliens, and abrogating NAFTA.
They bribed this guy with a lot of money...how much are our politicans being bribed to cater to Mexico and its drug cartels?
Anti-American Globalism running amok
Homeland Security got involved as a kickback to Hollywood lobbyists.
Big Media Meets Law Enforcement at White House; Biden Announces Focus on Intellectual Property Theft (BroadbandandBreakfast December 16th, 2009 Andrew Feinberg and Eli Evans)
Appearing at the White House complex with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, the directors of the FBI, Customs and Border Protection, and the United States Secret Service, as well as the chief executives of the nation’s largest entertainment companies.The meeting was followed by a closed-door, roundtable discussion on international intellectual property theft.
That second meeting brought together more than 20 high-ranking government officials and entertainment industry leaders in seeking solutions to the problem of piracy.
While Biden acknowledged the efforts of past administrations and programs, “The truth of the matter is that the problem has gotten worse,” he said. “Intellectual piracy is costing this country…billions of dollars and thousands of jobs,” Biden told the assembled executives
They have to find some justification for doing so. "TERRORISM!"
I don't see any government crackdown on Big Media stealing monies earned by the creators of intellectual property. No one who sends an auditor into one of the corporate music companies comes out empty handed. Some had to wait 40 years to see their money come that was due.
“This can be handled by closing the Mexican border, deporting illegal aliens, and abrogating NAFTA.”
_____Careful now, you’ll rile up the rinos !
“They bribed this guy with a lot of money...how much are our politicans being bribed to cater to Mexico and its drug cartels?”
_______Yep! Follow the $$$$$....
“Anti-American Globalism running amok”
______Indeed.
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“I’ve read Muslims are doing this as well. Encouraging American Muslims to join the military, get trained and then join the fight after their service. Sounds familiar to anyone who has read of the fall of the Roman Empire, and their military.”
Absolutely.
Here’s the Nafbpo foreign news for the day:
Christmas spirit completely lacking in Juarez or Tijuana
By m3report
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
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Foreign News Report
Thursday, 12/17/09
La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 12/16/09
“A world without walls?”
[Full transl. of op/col. by Rene Aguilar, titled as above]
Twenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall that separated communist Germany from occidental Germany, (and) a few years since perestroika significantly altered the socio-economic and geo-politic system of Russia, and also a few years since continental China began to open its rigid communist agenda. Will important changes in other nations of the globe also occur, whether they have communist / socialist / capitalist / monarchical, etc., governments?
The globalized planet would no longer be able to develop nor to survive with anachronistic and paralyzing structures. Will there no longer be concrete walls, nor of water, nor wire fences which force humans to be trapped in their own countries without the hope of discovering other horizons, breathing other airs and getting to know other cultures? The world is wide and belongs to all. Thank you, God, you, who made a gift to humanity of the best individual independence: free will and freedom of conscience. Happy 2010!
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 12/16/09
Emigration of children from Honduras
“Some 10,000 children left Honduras this year to reach a dream in another country, but half of them found a nightmare. Data from the Honduran National Migrations Forum show that between 50 and 60 percent of those minors who emigrated to the United States during this year became victims of people trafficking.” The minors are exposed to extortions and kidnappings. Deportation of minors back to Honduras by land [meaning they are being repatriated from Mexico & Guatemala] has reached 60 to 70 per week. Some 300 have been repatriated from the U.S. by air this year.
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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 12/16/09 – The following item also made news in at least a dozen other Mexican papers.
A bloody church
In Cuencame, Durango, a cleaning crew in a church started its work this morning (Wed.); there, they saw what they thought was trash left behind in black plastic bags. But there was also blood among the bags. The six bags each contained a human head, so they called the local police. State officials later confirmed that “the bodily parts found belonged to five members of the police force and to one state justice department agent.” The six had been carried off by force Monday night. [The location is in northern Durango, near Parral, Chihuahua.]
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El Diario, Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 12/16/09
Juarez violence continues
“Yesterday the city lived another violent day that left a result of 15 murdered persons and one wounded.” [That is the beginning of an article in “El Diario,” that then goes on to a matter-of-fact description of the different bloody events. This item was included among a secondary listing in the local section’s “Other News.” The main, bold print, local news featured instead such items as the continuation of a commercial plaza project and the call by the Mex. Soc. Sec. agency for persons to initiate paperwork and applications in case they wish to travel to the interior of the country.] “Norte” added that, with yesterday’s toll, Juarez has now reached a total 2,528 victims of homicide this year.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 12/16/09
Violence also goes on in Tijuana
From this paper’s front page: “The wave of violence continues; 8 dead in TJ during the day, and counting.” [That was recorded in at 13:52 hrs.; however, an appended side note reported the subsequent finding of three more victims of assassination in the El Florido section of town.]
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Excelsior (Mexico City) 12/16/09
Weed by the river bank
Mex. federal police seized 3,044 lbs. (1,384 kgs.) of marihuana found inside 114 packages among the brush on the Mexican side of the banks of the Rio Grande River near the town of Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas. [This is across from Roma, TX, approx. 100 mi. upriver from Brownsville, TX, as the crow flies]
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A fairly large number of Central American and Mexican papers reported the introduction of a bill by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) to legalize 12 million undocumented immigrants. The event has not yet caused the publication of relating editorials or op/columns.
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Getting rough, out there!!
Be Ever Vigilant!!
Shouldn’t this fall under the category of *treason*?
(only in a perfect world)
By some estimates, illegal drugs account for around 8% of world trade. And all that money has to be laundered through our financial institutions. Do you really think the powers that be want that cash flow to dry up?
“This can be handled by closing the Mexican border, deporting illegal aliens, and abrogating NAFTA.”
_____Careful now, you’ll rile up the rinos !
If my computer was not acting up....I would post that photo with the car that ran over the Rhino ;-)
A note from Mike Cutler about this article:
I was utterly frustrated that even after the attacks of September 11, 2001 that our nation’s leaders, both in the Congress and at the White House, were unwilling to provide the vital funding to secure our nation’s borders and create real integrity within the immigration bureaucracy!
Luis F. Alarid is focused upon in the news article because he was a CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspector who used his position of trust to facilitate the smuggling of narcotics and illegal aliens into the United States. According to the article, which I urge you to take the time to read in its entirety by clicking on the link I have provided below, Alarid had become a member of the United States armed forces before he began working for CBP.
It is not until you get to the bottom of the second page of this news report that you will see that Mr. Alarid was born in Tijuana, Mexico and was purportedly raised in a succession of foster homes in California. His immigration status was never made clear. Perhaps he was a naturalized United States citizen. Then again, perhaps he was not. It is possible that he may have gained United States citizenship through his service in our military. The point is that the issue of his citizenship is never even addressed in the article.
Would you not expect that the fact that a corrupt CBP officer who had clear connections to the Mexican drug cartels and smugglers who were operating along the border that is supposed to separate the United States from Mexico had been, in fact born in Mexico would be a major factor in this story?
I am willing to believe that he became a naturalized citizen but what then needs to be considered is just how thorough was his application for citizenship scrutinized? Certainly the possibility exists that no matter how thorough the background investigation might have been, Alarid could have managed to become a naturalized citizen. However, I am skeptical about this. Consider, if you will, the fact that about three years ago USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), the agency that adjudicates all applications for various immigration benefits including applications for United States citizenship claimed to have lost some 111,000 immigration alien files relating to aliens who had filed applications for all sorts of immigration benefits including those who applied for lawful immigrant status and other, some 30,000 filed applications for naturalization, the process by which United States citizenship is conferred upon aliens.
All of those 111,000 applications including the 30,000 applications for United States citizenship were acted upon without the adjudicators who handled these applications, being provided with the files they absolutely needed in order to do an effective job of screening and adjudicating those applications.
Additionally, other issues also make it all but impossible for the process that adjudicates more than 6 million applications each and every year to have even a shred of integrity.
Meanwhile the administration is now gearing up to provide amnesty to God knows how many millions of illegal aliens who haven’t a shred of official documentation to verify the identities of these aliens!
The article that I have focused on for the purpose of this commentary goes into great detail about how the hiring effort initiated by CBP is making it impossible to screen the newly hired employees effectively. This goes back to the issue about the way that USCIS adjudicates applications for immigration benefits. There is a clearly established principle that says that the faster you do your job, the more that quality will suffer. Indeed, there is an inverse relationship between quality and quantity. This simply commonsense.
Just as the hiring process at CBP is enabling bad guys to join the ranks of the dedicated men and women of CBP, the same sort of rapidly moving bureaucratic conveyor belt at USCIS also compromises the process by which applications for resident alien status and United States citizenship forcing the adjudicators to barely have the time to make certain that they manage to hit the applications in the proper space with the approval stamp!
A final point: there will be, no doubt, those who will point out that the other crooked personnel noted in the article were not identified as being naturalized citizens and are, therefore, presumably native-born United States citizens. Indeed this is true, however, let us remember that as the saying goes, “You can pick your friends but you cannot pick your relatives.”
Citizens of the United States who acquire their citizenship at birth are not subject to an adjudications process. At the moment of their birth, they are citizens of our nation and immigration has no control over them. Foreign born individuals who seek to naturalize, however, are supposed to be properly vetted as a part of the naturalization process. This is something that our government does have (or is supposed to have) control over. The problem is that this process is fatally flawed. Worse yet, the administration and a number of our nation’s “leaders” in both houses of Congress are preparing to have that inept and hobbled agency (USCIS) administer a program, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, that would have catastrophic consequences for our nation and our citizens.
Once again we have clear and unequivocal evidence of the inability of our government to carry out its most basic duties and our leaders are eager to heap millions of applications into the bureaucratic hoppers that would make an utter mockery of the immigration system that has such incredibly ramifications for so many critically important aspects of our nation today!
Given the reality of the situation, Comprehensive Immigration Reform would fall just one notch short of declaring anyone born on the planet earth to be a citizen of the United States!
The first step in solving problems is to identify the problem- clearly our nation’s leaders are refusing to accept the reality of the situation! Their refusal jeopardizes our nation’s security and the lives of our citizens!
A country without secure borders can no more stand than can a house without walls!
Any politician who refuses to work to secure our borders and create an immigration system that has integrity is either corrupt or too dumb to keep his (her) job. Any politician, irrespective of party affiliation who favors health care for illegal aliens and/or Comprehensive Immigration Reform should be shown the door at the next election!
Ping!
Give'em hellthcare and a side order of cap and trade!
A "we have found the enemy, and it is us" moment.
“A “we have found the enemy, and it is us” moment.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411188/posts
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