Security Strict at U.S. Borders with Mexico, Canada

reuters ^

[Pa' fuera]

border cams are here:

http://www.telnor.com/telnor/Telnor.jsp

[Amerigomag]

Misleading title. There is stricter security at the ports of entry but this comes at the expense of the security of most of the boarder.

In an effort to increase security at the more formal commercial crossings and not interfer with commercial flow, the Boarder Patrol has pulled many agents off normal "patrols". This means the guys in the SUVs are now back at the office checking trucks.

Apparenlty word is spreading in Mexico that the boarder is now open and the rush is on for emmigration.

Our boarders may be wide open for foot immigration for at least several weeks. A cool aid stand near the boarder may be big business as the masses rush to migrate north.

[Black Agnes]

Joy ping. Border essentially open other than port of entry points.

[JustSayNoNWO]

"Our boarders may be wide open for foot immigration for at least several weeks. A cool aid stand near the boarder may be big business as the masses rush to migrate north."

Ummm....not sounding too sarcastic I hope....where is Jim Jones and "cool-aid" around when you might need them?

[Tancredo Fan]

Indeed. Any effective half-hearted (and half-witted) border enforcement by this administration seems to be done merely for show. Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful.

[FITZ]

It sounds like the port of entry at El Paso is less secure not more (and quicker where the illegals come through):

"Lines at the international bridges, although expected, were not as long Tuesday as they were three weeks ago. Average wait times in El Paso were 45 to 90 minutes Tuesday, compared with up to three hours three weeks ago."

http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20030319-89448.shtml

[Hila]

This is our chance to close the border, nor national security during war time. We must not only diminish the entrance of Mexicans, but we have to stop them from entering, enough is enough.

[eno_]

If our Republican administration does not stop illegal immigration, it is the endof the Republican party. Illegals are the cannon fodder of illegal voting. A couple MILLION illegal votes are cast each year, and illegals are a BIG part of the problem (dead people and doped up nursing home patients are most of the rest).

[graycamel]

many Mexicans in Nuevo Laredo who work and even attend school across the border in Texan sister city Laredo.

HUH??

[c-b 1]

many Mexicans in Nuevo Laredo who work and even attend school across the border in Texan sister city Laredo.

That is a fact of life all along the border.

[Black Agnes]

Why do you think the border counties are broke and all voted for Gore in '00?

[c-b 1]

Why do you think the border counties are broke and all voted for Gore in '00?

Gore did not carry the border county I live in. In the past election only one democrat carried the county, and that was only by 50 votes.

[Black Agnes]

Ok...most. Look at the blue/red county by county map.

[graycamel]

Hey, when I lived in Calif, anyone could vote by filling out a postcard and sending it in. No need for proof of citizenship or anything.

[graycamel]

Ironically, Mexico rounds up their illegals from Central America, Cuba, and Haiti, and sends them back.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Security Strict at U.S. Borders with Mexico, Canada

On the other hand, 36 Cubans just flew in and landed at Key West Airport not three hours ago.

That's right, they just flew in and landed. And bear in mind, Key West is a major Coast Guard/Navy base. I am daily overflown by F/A-18 Hornets and, today, a couple of CH-47 Sea Chinooks (at least they looked like Chinooks to me) on my way to work. On a good day, I get to see the real Tops Guns -- elderly F-14 Tomcats out stretching their legs in the Caribbean sun (the Tom is an ancient plane, at least by Lockheed "Raptor" standards. She's also far more beautiful, more capable, and more deadly, than the pissant "Super" Hornets who have been tasked to replace her).

Yet the first "warning" we enjoyed was when these 36 Cubans trundled off their passenger plane and started shouting, "Viva America!!" Surprise, y'all -- the Cubans are here. Did somebody forget to check the flight manifest? Happens all the freakin' time.

Thank God they were refugees. Thank God (for their sakes) they escaped Cuba, hit the airfield with "dry feet", and are therefore now US Citizens.

I like the Cubans. They're more American than most Americans, once they make it here.

But, technically, if we see them coming, we're obliged to turn them away before they get here. We're not supposed to find out about their unscheduled joy rides when they tramp out on the tarmac singing, "God bless America, and brother can you spare a Cervesa!!"

Pardon me if I remain unimpressed with US Border Security. I rather think that 50,000 or so US Troops could make a big impression along our undefended Borders. God knows we could spare to bring them home from so-called overseas "allies" in defense of whom we spend billions of dollars, and who don't appreciate us anyway.

[Tancredo Fan]

This is our chance to close the border, nor national security during war time. We must not only diminish the entrance of Mexicans, but we have to stop them from entering, enough is enough.

There are several groups along the worst parts of the border that are trying to help, but the U.S. government isn't one of them. They are Ranch Rescue (Texas, AZ, NM, Calif.), American Border Patrol (Sierra Vista, AZ), and Civil Homeland Defense (Tombstone, AZ). Expect nothing out of D.C. at all, no matter how much we are threatened by foreign forces. Votes seem to be more important to them than the lives and property of Americans. We have some of the most despicable pinheads in the beltway now than ever before in recent history, IMO.

[the_doc]

Bump

[Calpernia]

Transmittal from my Commander! Border Patrol Alert!


Information for you in case you have not heard or been told yet.
California or Texas 6 Iraq Terrorist are somewhere in Mexico trying to get
into US. I was told if blockades get set in Okla. we will be notified to
help. California and Texas could get some good points here

Major General Dan Martin
United States National Defense Force Support Command
http://www.usndfscom.com