Arizona Sheriff: Border Patrol Has Retreated from Parts of Border Because It’s ‘Too Dangerous’

CNSNews ^ | August 13, 2010 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[jazusamo]

 

Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz. (Cochise County Sheriff's office photo)

(CNSNews.com) - Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz., one of four Arizona counties contiguous with the U.S-Mexico border, said Friday that the U.S. Border Patrol has pulled back from parts of the border in his and neighboring counties because manning those areas has become too dangerous.
 
“And you frankly have Border Patrolmen--and I know this from talking to Border Patrol agents—who will not allow their agents to work on the border because it is too dangerous,” Dever told CNSNews.com in a videotaped interview. “Now what kind of message is that for crying out loud?”

VIDEO

Dever, a native of Cochise County, has been in local law enforcement in the county for three decades. He was elected the county sheriff in 1996.

Dever stressed that the Border Patrolmen are ready and willing to perform their mission of securing the border, but that Border Patrol managers had determined that in “some places” the danger was too great and they wanted to avoid the risk of an international incident such as a cross-border firefight.
 
“Now, I am telling you, the agents, you give them a mission, you tell them what you want them to do, they will go do it,” said Dever. “I mean, these guys for the most part are warriors, they are soldiers.
 
“Then you have middle management and upper management that says: No, it’s too dangerous right there and we’re going to cause an international incident if there’s shooting across the line, back and forth,” said Dever.
 
“Well, I say: Come, bring it on. Let’s cause the international incident,” he said.
 
Dever said there were places where the Border Patrol had pulled back from the border in his county and in neighboring areas both in Arizona and New Mexico.
 
He pointed out that in Pinal County, 70 miles north of the border, the Bureau of Land Management has put up a sign along a drug smuggling corridor to warn American citizens away from the region because it is too dangerous.
 
CNSNews.com provided Customs and Border Protection with a transcript of Sheriff Dever's statement about the Border Patrol pulling back from parts of the border in his area because it is too dangerous.

"There are areas down there in the Tucson Sector where for officer safety reasons, officers aren’t up on the line. For whatever reason--it may be a remote area," said a CBP spokesperson. "We still have the means to detect entry, whether it is a sensor or a scoped vehicle. So the entry is detected, but the apprehension of the undocumented migrant isn’t affected until they reach a safe area.”

[jazusamo]

That’s sure what it looks like to me. Never thought I’d see the day that thugs from within would cede US territory.

[Little Ray]

Of course. Can’t have any GUNS going South...

[DCPatriot]

It’s such a shame that our country has been completely denutted.

OTOH...think Ramos and Compean. I wouldn't want those two...or others like him causing an incident.

[jazusamo]

Seeing those pics makes my blood boil and I’ve seen them more than once. Those LEOs that were there had to be pissed.

[AZFolks]

This is absolutely heartbreaking. I came here almost 40 years ago and lived in Tucson. However, at least 3 or 4 times per month the family would go to Cochise County, a place I think God spent special effort making. Mountains, streams, petroglyphs, fabulous birding, ghost towns and wonderful people. What has happened is not my America. Activist have cowed the cowards in Washington to allow us to lose our right to enjoy our environment. They have thrown us to the wolves and take us to court if we try to defend ourselves. We need to get rid of them and regress to our old America!

[patton]

Well, in truth, they were probably looking for a CONEX full of cash, that some politician hadn’t got his cut of...

[OldBullrider]

Captain Lloyd W. Williams, who was serving as a company commander in the 5th Marines. When advised to withdraw by a French officer at the defensive line just north of the village of Lucy-le-Bocage on June 1, 1918, he is said to have replied: “Retreat? Hell, we just got here!”.

Why is today any different than it was 50 or a 100 years ago. Our politicians and leaders in government are a bunch of faint hearted, gutless wonders, with no spine too boot. If they want to redefine the Marine Corps roll, have the Marines make an amphibious landing just south of San Diego, California and tell them to secure the border, then they will be picked up east of Brownsville, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico.

[Cyber Liberty]

McCain supporter. ‘Nuff said.

[WMarshal]

"Our border is better sealed that ever" because they are giving up territory:

[TigersEye]

Posting signs like these has legal implications that go straight to the heart of American sovereignty. 0baMao has asserted that southern Arizona has been ceded to Mexico.

Gov. Brewer to President Obama ...(Must see video)

Look what they found near the Texas and Mexico border (See pix)

Mexicans Take Over Parts Of Arizona (video)

The Truth of Mexicos Civil War with Drug Cartels (FR thread 8/13/10)

[AuntB]

Just attended my County Fair...it was great signing the pledge to stand with Arizona that my neighbors worked up!

SISKIYOU County California stands with Arizona!

[DCPatriot]

Unfortunately even after we win Congress back in 81 days...it won’t be able to overcome any veto power Obama will have.

And every time he wields it, it will be accompanied by a, “See? The Republicans are NOT your friends! Remember that in 2012!”

Add the growing numbers of furloughed people [workers] who now find themselves dependent on the government... the SOB may win a 2nd term.

[RickB444]

“Only if he was (profiled and) asked for proof of citizenship.”

That is our key to finding his BC. We need to drop his ass on the other side of the border and then not let him back into the country unless he can give his BC as proof of citizenship.

We’ve been going about this all wrong.

[jazusamo]

Good post, thanks!

[AuntB]

“Didja catch whats-her-name’s speach this afternoon?

She said, we are now inspecting 100% of trains GOING SOUTH.”

Hi patton! I didn’t see it, but that sounds about right....we’re sending troops to the border at Mexico’s request to do such inspections with NO immigration control into this country.

National Guard role on border clarified - NAFBPO
El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 5/26/10

Mexico asks National Guard to combat crime and not immigrants

Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE) requested that the 1,200 US National Guard soldiers sent to the Mexican border by President Obama be used to pursue organized criminals and not immigrants. ”Mexico is confident that the personnel of the National Guard will strengthen the operations to combat transnational organized crime that exists on both sides of the border and (…) not undertake activities directly connected to the application of migratory laws,” said Secretary Patricia Espinosa Cantellano in a communique. In the message, she reiterated that the Mexican government respects “the sovereign decisions” of the US, but demanded that this decision of Obama’s result in “channeling additional resources” to reinforce the prevention of “illegal traffic of arms and cash money to Mexico.”

In a related story, Joel Hernandez, judicial adviser for the SRE explained that the Mexican government has no recourse in the International Court to legally stop Arizona’s new law, SB 1070, for lack of jurisdictional grounds to challenge a state law. Mexico can only assist in US law suits as “friend of the court.”

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El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 5/26/10

Illegal entrants can rest easy

Washington, D.C. – The US National Guard sent to reinforce the border will seek to stop “illegal traffic” and not be used to enforce immigration law, the US State Department affirmed today. The Mexican government had requested that the soldiers not be used against immigrants. ”What the president announced today is totally consistent with our efforts to do our part in counteracting violence” and “to halt the flow of dangerous people and property: arms and drugs,” said the State Department’s spokesman, Philip Crowley. ”It doesn’t have to do with immigration. It doesn’t have to do with the flow of certain things that come to this side of the border,” Crowley said,

http://www.informador.com.mx/internacional/2010/204638/6/tropas-en-la-frontera-no-lucharan-contra-inmigracion-eu.htm

http://m3report.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/national-guard-role-on-border-clarified/

US troops won’t be used to stop illegal immigration: US
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0513d49acfc29bc63d3ee39de8bd3b71.dc1&show_article=1 ^

Posted on Thu May 27 11:03:33 2010 by kcvl

US National Guard troops being sent to the Mexican border will be used to stem the flow of guns and drugs across the frontier and not to enforce US immigration laws, the State Department said Wednesday. The clarification came after the Mexican government urged Washington not to use the additional troops to go after illegal immigrants.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2522424/posts

[jazusamo]

SISKIYOU County Rocks, AuntB! :-)

[TigersEye]

You are welcome. In case people might skip past the last link in that post here it is again. It is a new thread posted today.

The Truth of Mexicos Civil War with Drug Cartels (FR thread 8/13/10)

[AuntB]

“OTOH...think Ramos and Compean. I wouldn’t want those two...or others like him causing an incident. “

Oh, you just can’t help yourself, can you? What about the ‘incident’ of your precious undocumented CRIMINALS murdering a fellow citizen, Robert Krentz, on his own property.....as usual for you, when it’s one of us...SILENCE.

In fact, it might have been the same SCUM that Ramos and Compean should have been able to SHOOT DEAD!

Hey, here’s a new whine for you....A sheriff deputy near my home shot and killed a Mexican Cartel guy when he shot at him with a shotgun....maybe you and your LaRaza buddies can get that deputy locked up as well.

[Cheetahcat]

“Captain Lloyd W. Williams, who was serving as a company commander in the 5th Marines. When advised to withdraw by a French officer at the defensive line just north of the village of Lucy-le-Bocage on June 1, 1918, he is said to have replied: “Retreat? Hell, we just got here!”.

Why is today any different than it was 50 or a 100 years ago. Our politicians and leaders in government are a bunch of faint hearted, gutless wonders, with no spine too boot. If they want to redefine the Marine Corps roll, have the Marines make an amphibious landing just south of San Diego, California and tell them to secure the border, then they will be picked up east of Brownsville, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico.”

Agreed and Thanks for the story of our great military.

[patton]

OMG, I thought I was just being cynical.

I am going to be ill.