Posted on 05/09/2006 12:40:29 PM PDT by NapkinUser
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Tom Tancredo (R-CO) decried a recently-disclosed U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) practice of tipping off the Mexican military to the location of Minutemen volunteers. According to a story in this morning’s Inland Daily Bulletin, CBP notifies the Mexican government of when and where the Minutemen are planning to monitor the border and if violence is used by the Minutemen against illegal aliens. There has not been one verified instance of Minutemen volunteers using violence against illegal aliens.
“The Mexican military doesn’t exactly have a ‘good government’ reputation. The Border Patrol has documented more than two hundred incursions into the U.S by the Mexican military, and Texas sheriffs even apprehended Mexican government vehicles that were used to ferry drug runners across the border. By tipping off Mexico’s military to the Minutemen’s location, the U.S. government is asking for trouble,” said Tancredo.
“Heavily-armed military officials stationed only yards from civilians are at least intimidating. I can only surmise that the Border Patrol bureaucrats’ spying is meant to have a chilling effect on the Minutemen’s recruitment of more volunteers,” said Tancredo.
“The Minutemen haven’t been accused of breaking the law. Quite the contrary—they have gone out of their way to aid law enforcement and ensure the safety of our border. The U.S. government has no grounds upon which to stifle the Minutemen’s constitutional right to organize,” Tancredo concluded. “I want to know the legal basis for CBP informing a foreign government of the activities of private citizens who are obeying the law.”
No, but telling them how many memebers are in the Illinois chapter and what political pull they have seems to be spying on American citizens and passing it off to another government.
Why don't you Cong. tancredo do something useful such as trying to dismantle the Dept. of education.
Oops I forgot Cong. tancredo worked there for 12 years, why would he put his comrades out of work.
You really don't know what you're talking about, do you?
"After serving two terms, Tancredo, who had taught history at a Denver junior high school, was appointed in 1981 to head the regional office of the Department of Education in the Reagan administration. But it wasn't his credentials as an educator that interested Education Secretary William Bennett, but rather Tancredo's social conservatism and his belief that the federal government's involvement in education should be downsized. In his four years with the Department of Education, Tancredo shrunk the office staff in Denver from 225 to 60 employees."
Why 1973?
What are we supposed to do? Write a complaint to the Border Patrol? They'll just whine "I'm just doin what i'm told"
I was under the impression it was when Nixon left office.
ping for later
The worst part is that the GOP isn't going to even get the votes out of this. The Balkanization of the country just for cheap labor and to fulfill a NWO fantasy is criminal.
They would have to be in power first, before they couod do that, wouldn't they?
bttt
I am very upset about this affair. our own government is our worst enemy.
I'm not necessarily talking about any one person in particular here.
It appears so.
LOL, Then I would breathe a sigh of relief. I would be like, "Ahhhhhh, now I get it". Cuz, at this point I am starting to think the kind of stuff that I usually see posted over at Liberty Forum.
Did you not read it though? He downsized the department as best he could, how is that helping his "comrades" keep a job at the department of education.
Re-read what I posted and get back to me. I never denied he worked at the department of education, so your whole point is moot.
I'm also on your side! Don't forget who the minutemen represent. People like Patrick Henry and George Washington were real American heros in spite of what they may teach in schools today.
Very good advice. Several open border members troll the threads and try to high jack them by being extraordinary obtuse.
It ends up getting important threads completely off topic and ignored by late comers - of course this is exactly their goal.
Unlike Senator Patrick Leahy, I'm beginning to hate the federal government.
About a year ago during a senate interrogation of a judicial nominee Leahy stated that he was surprised that the guy in the hotseat had written that he was unhappy with the federales.
It was then the Cheshire Cat said "I love my government."
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