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700 miles of U.S.-Mexico border still insecure, congressional investigators say
Washington Times ^ | 1/03/15 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 01/04/2015 3:08:06 PM PST by Libloather

Less than 3 percent of illegal immigrants will ever be deported, and more than 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border remained unsecured as of 2014, according to Sen. Tom Coburn’s final oversight report released Saturday morning, which found the Homeland Security Department failing in several of its top missions.

The report also said corruption is a serious problem in the Border Patrol, but said agency officials actually told internal affairs investigators to cut down on the number of cases they were pursuing, according to the former division head.

In another finding Mr. Coburn’s staff on the Senate Homeland Security Committee found mission creep to be a problem: agents at one immigration agency spent time cracking down on women’s lingerie that they believed infringed on Major League Baseball’s officially licensed logos. The agents raided a lingerie store in Kansas City, Mo., flashed their badges and confiscated 18 pairs of underwear marked with an unauthorized Kansas City Royals logo, Mr. Coburn’s investigators found.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; borderinsecurity; bordersecurity; congress; illegals; immigration; mexico; secure
Mr. Coburn said that agency, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, should spend more time focusing on illegal immigrants and less time on property issues like women’s underwear.

My guess - Hussein requested them.

1 posted on 01/04/2015 3:08:06 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

and how many more illegal immigrants enter initially with simple short term tourist, or student or work, visas... and then ... just .... stay.....
it could be as many or more than those coming across the Rio Grande


2 posted on 01/04/2015 3:11:01 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: Libloather

700 miles? I’m surprised it’s that low.


3 posted on 01/04/2015 3:14:18 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: All

But, since Coburn thinks Obama is “a neat man”, all is forgiven.


4 posted on 01/04/2015 3:23:16 PM PST by pluvmantelo (Democrats: the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
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To: Libloather

is it any surprise that the border patrol is a corrupt mess? after 5 years of that ridiculous Napolitano woman in charge at homeland security, I’m shocked that we haven’t suffered another attack on a major American city.

I’m sure it will happen, but it will probably happen to obama’s successor - who he will immediately blame from his retirement on a golf course for squandering the perfect legacy of security that he created.

you know it’s going to happen that way.


5 posted on 01/04/2015 3:24:51 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Libloather

6 posted on 01/04/2015 3:28:32 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Libloather

“700 miles of U.S.-Mexico border still insecure, congressional investigators say”

It’s the mother’s fault.


7 posted on 01/04/2015 3:29:53 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Libloather

“insecure”

Maybe some time with a counselor, some self-esteem training, ...


8 posted on 01/04/2015 3:34:33 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: Veggie Todd
700 miles? I’m surprised it’s that low.

Remember 10 years and hundreds of millions dollars ago when President Bush promised to build the fence and close the border?

9 posted on 01/04/2015 4:21:28 PM PST by Iron Munro (Conservative Epitaph: Don't Cry For Me , You Still Have Two More Years Of Obama)
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To: Libloather

But Harry Reid said last summer that the border is secure.

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2014/07/15/harry-reid-the-border-is-secure/


10 posted on 01/04/2015 4:29:44 PM PST by Buck-I-Guy
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Libloather.


11 posted on 01/04/2015 4:34:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Thinking you’re right & also that someone should be actively thinking about how to put the blame where it belongs when the time comes. It surely will come in some way,shape,or form.


12 posted on 01/04/2015 5:00:58 PM PST by oldtech
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To: Libloather

“Insecure”? What? Do the borders need their mommies?

The word is “unsecured.”


13 posted on 01/04/2015 5:21:31 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: Libloather

A government that refuses to secure it’s legitimate lawful sovereign borders, will itself eventually become illegitimate and lawless.

We are there.


14 posted on 01/04/2015 6:16:34 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Iron Munro
Remember 10 years and hundreds of millions dollars ago when President Bush promised to build the fence and close the border?

But he didn't miss celebrating Cinco De Mayo up in the White House, at tax payer expense while tens of millions entered illegally during war time yet....

15 posted on 01/04/2015 6:19:54 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Libloather
Less than 3 percent of illegal immigrants will ever be deported, and more than 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border remained unsecured as of 2014

The 3% is the more important number.

Solution? Stop giving illegal immigrants:

Driver's licenses
Welfare Payments
Jobs
Anchor babies
In-state or Free tuition

Get the deportation rate up to 90+%.

Use these for the southward "repatriation" journey.


16 posted on 01/04/2015 6:27:51 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: BwanaNdege

The solutions have been voiced 10 million times....They’re not interested in solutions or securing the borders. This should be inordinately clear after decades of this...


17 posted on 01/04/2015 9:07:15 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
The solutions have been voiced 10 million times....

True, but at least Free Republic gives me a chance to rant, with the assurance that at least here, unlike with Congress, someone IS listening.

18 posted on 01/05/2015 3:20:33 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: BwanaNdege

Rant? That’s all we’re doing...This will never be turned around by traditional means. Too late and way too corrupt for that.


19 posted on 01/05/2015 8:39:56 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
Netflix just added the musical movie "1776". I remember the scenes of deliberations of the Continental Convention leading up to the decision to issue the Declaration of Independence.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

"We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

-In the Continental Congress just before signing the Declaration of Independence, 1776.

I will have to watch "1776" again, not as entertainment, but as instruction and motivation.

20 posted on 01/05/2015 1:10:44 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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