Posted on 08/13/2003 9:54:03 AM PDT by LNewman
After a backlash, the Border Patrol won't nab suspects except at the border or checkpoints. Now agents are angry.
After protests over recent immigration arrests in San Diego and San Juan Capistrano, Border Patrol officials have instructed agents not to make arrests on city streets or question suspected illegal immigrants except along the border and at highway checkpoints in Orange and Riverside counties.
The directive, outlined in an Aug. 8 memo, is aimed at agents in San Diego and southern areas of Orange and Riverside counties.
"The future of Border Patrol operations" depends on eliminating the public perception that agents occasionally conduct neighborhood sweeps, says the memo from William T. Veal, chief patrol agent for the greater San Diego area.
Agents reacted with anger and disbelief to the memo.
"I refuse not to do my job. They want us to turn a blind eye even if we know that an alien is here illegally, and a criminal [besides]. That's reprehensible," said agent Thane Gallagher, who is also a union official. "Whose mythical notion is this that once an illegal alien is in the U.S., we're supposed to turn our back?"
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
In comparing Cubans and Canadians, is there any real difference between them in today's world?
Not if you're a DemonRat staking your future on race-pimping.
Ensuring that immigrants are always of some other ethnos than the dominant one in the target country guarantees that your services as a 'Rat Pimp will always be in demand, since social tensions will always be on high simmer, if not boil.
Unhappy people make for happy, fat 'Rats. They gorge on our troubles and feast on social conflict. And they run up and down drainpipes all day, and nothing ever sticks to their shiny, glistening fur....
Bring me ferrets. Millions of ferrets.
Yes, it would be useful to know whether the memo-writing idiot in San Diego were acting under direction.
What was this agent doing so far from the border in the first place? Wouldnt it make more sense for him to be on the border or at a check point preventing additional aliens from getting through?
Now that he drove all the way up there and arrested this family does anyone here really think they will be removed to Mexico? Not likely. Does it make sense to round up aliens already in the country when they can simply drag out their deportation proceedings for 10 years and then not show up for their deportation anyway? This system is a joke.
Perhaps our Border Patrol should focus on its primary mission defending the border. Perhaps the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (whos job it is to round up illegal aliens) should do their jobs.
It makes no strategic or tactical sense to take agents off the border to round up illegal aliens in the interior. While this agent was arresting this group, how many more entered?
The problem of 8 to 10 million illegal aliens in this country requires a political solution and the development of a safe and sane immigration policy. The Border Patrol must focus its resources efforts on the border. Theyre the only defense weve got.
Just as an aside, it never takes long on a thread like this dealing with illegal immigration for someone to bring up the subject of race and imply---or state outright---that those concerned with illegal immigration simply find immigrants' skin color objectionable, are disguised racists, "believe there are racial differences in intelligence," etc. They expect, and too often get, a "conditioned response." Good way to keep the lid on the immigration debate, such as it is.
What was this agent doing so far from the border in the first place? Wouldnt it make more sense for him to be on the border or at a check point preventing additional aliens from getting through?
"So far from the border"?? Listen, San Diego County is right on the US-Mexico border and San Juan Capistrano is just over the county line from San Diego. Don't make it sound like these guys were off on a wild goose chase just to try to nab some poor shivering "undocumented worker" and whale on him---these guys were enforcing the law and nabbing people who illegally went over the border.
Now that he drove all the way up there and arrested this family does anyone here really think they will be removed to Mexico? Not likely. Does it make sense to round up aliens already in the country when they can simply drag out their deportation proceedings for 10 years and then not show up for their deportation anyway? This system is a joke.
And your point is? We throw the baby out with the bathwater because deportation proceedings are screwed up? Besides, aliens nabbed "so close to the border" can be detained and returned---they don't have to go through "10 years of deportation proceedings"---not unless the Border Patrol is prevented from doing its job.
Perhaps our Border Patrol should focus on its primary mission defending the border. Perhaps the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (whos job it is to round up illegal aliens) should do their jobs.
Who says the Border Patrol isn't doing its job?? Why do you think these guys are so angry---because they want to hang out at the beach at SJC instead of patrolling the border? No, they want to be able to enforce the law against illegal entry into the US, and that means detaining illegal aliens where they find them, even if it's not right at the border.
It makes no strategic or tactical sense to take agents off the border to round up illegal aliens in the interior. While this agent was arresting this group, how many more entered?
No one's "taking agents off the border to round up aliens in the interior"---didn't you read the article? Agents are being prevented from detaining illegals at an arbitrary (and as I noted very close) distance from the border.
The problem of 8 to 10 million illegal aliens in this country requires a political solution and the development of a safe and sane immigration policy. The Border Patrol must focus its resources efforts on the border. Theyre the only defense weve got.
"The problem of 8 to 10 million illegal aliens in this country requires a political solution and the development of a safe and sane immigration policy."? Ah, I get it now!! No enforcement of current law---just a "political solution" (translation: "amnesty" and political accommodation of the demands of the Mexican government, and American law and taxpayers be DAMNED), and a "safe and sane immigration policy" (translation: open borders).
The Border Patrol "must focus its resources efforts [sic] on the border."? They're trying to do just that---you and the other "open borders" people in and out of the government get the hell out of their way.
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