A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols along the Arizona-Mexico border Aug. 15 in Hereford, Ariz. (AP Photo)
Posted on 10/05/2010 7:48:48 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright
A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols along the Arizona-Mexico border Aug. 15 in Hereford, Ariz. (AP Photo)
Border Patrol agents trying to keep up with the pace of illegal immigration along the southwest border have gotten stuck in a kind of bureaucratic limbo, with a new government report showing federal regulations have stalled projects for months.
In one case, it took the Bureau of Land Management almost eight months to issue a permit allowing Border Patrol to move an underground sensor in New Mexico. In another, Border Patrol officials were denied permission to improve maintenance on roads and surveillance in California, forcing the patrol routes north. In another, it took more than four months for the agency to get permission to move "mobile" surveillance in Arizona -- by that time, illegal immigrant traffic had shifted.
These anecdotes are included as part of a Government Accountability Office study, a draft version of which was obtained by FoxNews.com. The report was commissioned to review lawmakers' concerns that environmental and preservation regulations are hampering efforts to secure the border and found that those regulations had in fact limited agents' access to the land they're supposed to patrol.
"With limited access for patrols and monitoring, some illegal entries may go undetected," the report said.
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Federal Government - enforcement, joke... Local States trying to enforce the law - great attempt, Judges rule unconstitutional, Law at its best! America down the drain - you betcha!
Has anyone noticed that the “Rule of Law” has now become identified as to who are in charge - hell with right and wrong! We have prosecutors only trying people to “win” - to hell with if they are innocent or not. After all, their reputation is at stake.
We have Police Officers giving false testimony to protect their jobs or other officers - hey, it’s a group thing...or worse!
This problem has been explicit in several areas - who has money, who has power, who knows what Senator, etc... It is really becoming a Country of the Knows and Know not... If this continues, there will really be another Revolution!
The standing of this Country has always been on fair law and order and it has become a joke lately... Hell, even our top Justice Department only wants to prosecute people if they are not minorities...
Thinks are really looking out of sync here...
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Ouch!
I just pinged the other post of this article...
This reminds me of World War 1 Russia and how the communists sabotaged the war machine in order to bring down the Czar.
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That certainly happens.
I don’t generally make much of a fuss about it. Usually just add the keyword and move on, but tonight I said myself, “Self, what the hey. Ping it!”
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DANG IT! spell checker won't catch that kind of error ... :(
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