Posted on 04/14/2010 7:09:45 PM PDT by Outside da Box
The unknown gunman who murdered an Arizona rancher three weeks ago entered and exited the U.S. illegally in an area where border agents are widely prohibited from using motorized vehicles, constructing roads and installing surveillance structures, federal agents have confirmed.
The development prompted four Republican congressmen to introduce legislation on Wednesday that will ban the Interior Department from using environmental regulations to hinder agents along the border, including at the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, a 2,300-acre parcel near where rancher Robert Krentz was killed on March 27.
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That the Interior Department needs to be banned from doing this is an outrage. This bill deserves wholehearted support.
Just Doing the Jobs That Americans Won’t Do Anymore
Family Values Don’t Stop At the Rio Grande
- “wisdom” fro GW Bush, author of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, AKA Amnesty. I wonder if we will ever see another President like Eisenhower who deported a million illegals and even named the program “Operation Wetback”.
Only 4 congressmen? Wow, what backbones our reps have.
The Dept. of the Interior would not let the US Army install radar on the Oahu peaks before the Pearl Harbor attack.
There was a radar installation operating in Hawaii on December 7th. It even picked up the incoming Japanese planes. The problem was that they were mistakenly assumed to be a flight of B-17s that were expected to arrive that same day.
Maybe the location of the radar unit didn’t make any difference, but at a higher elevation it might have detected the planes at a greater distance, and in that case they might have had more time to figure it out.
In any case, it seems to me that both in Hawaii in 1941 and today on our southern border, national security should override fanatically strict environmental policies.
Ping!
I’m all for building the fence.
What lousy reporting!
WHAT IS THE BILL NUMBER?!
I need the BILL NUMBER so that I can urge my congressman to become a co-sponsor!
I thought FOX was supposed to be smarter?
Very interesting about our radar in Hawaii. And I agree that radar up on the Oahu mountain tops would have done a better job of detecting the Japanese war planes coming to attack on Dec7th 1941
We need to support this bill.
You should keep in mind that radar was still in its infancy at the time of Pearl Harbor and its value wasn’t widely appreciated. The only actual wartime usage of radar had occurred just one year prior during the Battle of Britain. The two radar operators who spotted the Japanese flight called in their report only to have it dismissed by their superior.
The guy who answered the phone was a rookie officer who started his job a few days earlier.
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