What's wrong with Librarians? Heck, Benjamin Franklin started America's first 'lending library'; he was a decent fellow, wouldn't you agree?
Posted on 05/09/2006 6:21:25 AM PDT by IrishMike
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are. According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants -- and if and when violence is used against border crossers.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed.
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.
"This ... simply makes two basic statements -- that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."
Minuteman members were not so sanguine about the arrangement, however, saying that reporting their location to Mexican officials nullifies their effectiveness along the border and could endanger their lives.
"Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time," said Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels.
"They just basically endangered the lives of American people."
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I could be wrong, but I do not think Jim Robinson is on the trip with the Minutemen. I think the photo of the car leading the convoy showed JR in it at another function, I think the first update stated he was not on this trip.
What does international law say about invading a sovereign nation? I mean are we allowed to kick their ass out or do we go to the international law tribunal and request a conference with their government representative? Man you are at the wrong site to be quoting international law. Here we believe AMERICAN law takes precedence over international law when it comes to invading our country.
I passed disappointed a long time ago. Right now I'm cruising past white-hot anger. There aren't words to express how I feel.
Yes. It's the same international law that lets Americans have access to American consular officials when they are arrested in foreign countries such as Mexico. You want that right terminated?
You open border types are getting bolder by the day.
I'm not an "open border type," thank you very much.
If the government isn't going to enforce the laws, time to stop OBEYING the government. No more taxes, gun laws, EPA/FDA/DOE/ect... regulations. Toss it all out the window.
After all, this kind of points out that if millions of us just STOP obeying the law, then the FedGov will just roll over and cave in.
These morons have no idea the kind of sh*tstorm they are brewing up. I just hope they don't get us all killed.
YOUR TAX $$$$$$$$$ at work :)
Looks like the "migrants" have more rights than the Minutemen. Whose side is our government on here?
"....Next they'll be telling Mexico where the Border Patrol buries its seismic sensors....."
or maybe just sell them 'seismic sensor detectors' !
I would call it "sabotage"...which is by definition, . "Treacherous action to defeat or hinder a cause or an endeavor; deliberate subversion."
The Minutemen are a defeat for Bush because they signal to the American People that they are doing the job our Gov't won't do. Bush loathes them.
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Let's not forget: steel tariffs, Harriet Miers, pandering on 'alternative energy', signing Sarbanes-Oxley, effectively federalizing all disaster relief, abandoning Social Security reform. The bill of particulars of GWB disappointments is long.
There are, but, I'd get banned.
There aren't words to express how I feel.
Betrayed? Abandoned? Used?
"What migrant rights????????
Migrants have rights. I have posted this before and I am going to post this again. Click on the borderless map and then click on table of contents.
http://www.naalc.org
We gave them these rights when we signed on to NAFTA as this is an official NAFTA website with reports of the Secretariat of NAFTA. This is about labor laws and migrant rights.
No doubt, somewhere in NAFTA, CAFTA or the FTAA, there is something written that protects the migrants as they cross the border with or without work permits.
Just don't waste your time with the Guide to health care in Mexico. It will be a blank page. We give free health care to migrants or illegal aliens and it is verified.
Of course they won't. But a significant number - enough to easily offset the numbers gained in the Hispanic community by the GOP's pandering efforts - will choose (out of frustration) to either vote Independet, third party, or stay home. If "reaching out" to this "fastest growing demographic" actually worked then Rove's strategy might make some sense (ignoring for a minute that the real-world details of this strategy are slowing killing our nation), but as I mentioned history informs us that it doesn't work, and that the GOP's pandering efforts always fail. (They've been trying to "reach out" to blacks for decades now, but that groups still votes Donkey at a 90% clip).
If Rove's looking for success in the midterms he should recommend dropping the pandering, closing the border, repealing the anchor baby laws, cutting off the welfare freebies to illegals, and heavily fine (or jail) employers who hire them.
It is a long-standing requirement of international law (i.e., CENTURIES-long-standing).
Basically, when a foreign national is arrested here in the United States, certain requirements come into play:
1. The foreign national must be allowed access to a consular official of his country upon request.
2. The foreign government must be notified of the circumstances of the arrest--date, time, location, charge(s), and name(s) of arresting individual(s).
3. The foreign government may request access to the arresting individual(s) for an interview.
If Mexico is so concerned that the rights of the illegals are not violated, they should keep all illegals out of the US, then they could be sure their rights are not being violated by US citizens.
I worry about that part.
What's wrong with Librarians? Heck, Benjamin Franklin started America's first 'lending library'; he was a decent fellow, wouldn't you agree?
I can't even be that articulate.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHH!
We are being invaded to the tune of 12+ million and you want the Mexican government to have a chat with the American who arrests each invader? You can't equate this invasion with a hit and run accident by a GI in Japan. You can't be serious.
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