Emails to O'Reilly or other news outlets may be in order. We can't let Aguilar cover this incident up, nor let him continue to cover up such incidents. Please help get the word out about this.
This is outrageous! Mr. Aguilar is committing an act of treason in my opinion. We must be notified. Americans must be protected. This guy needs to be fired.
Good choice!
But critics charge that a large number of complaints go underreported because agents deal mainly with Mexican migrants, who are less likely to report misconduct. "Historically, (the Border Patrol) attempts to put the better spin on it," said Isabel Garcia, a Tucson lawyer and immigrant advocate. "They don't do any follow-up. They don't let the victims know how the cases are handled. Typically, they don't do anything. They minimize, they hide - anything to avoid dealing with the situation." King said the shortage of investigators to look into allegations has implications for all ranks of the Border Patrol, from managers to patrol agents who are accused of crimes.
U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., called the understaffing of the Office of Inspector General "a huge problem.
"We've had a tremendous increase in federal agencies and no commensurate increase in the Office of Inspector General," he said.
Kolbe said Congress allocated $5 million in the last budget for the OIG, which will give the Tucson office two additional investigators.
And more Border Patrol agents may be on the way, with President Bush proposing to double the current number to help keep terrorists out of the country. Most of the new agents would be assigned to the Canadian border. The rapid growth has worried some within the Border Patrol's ranks. Some veteran agents say working conditions, including living in impoverished border towns, have resulted in a revolving door. Many agents are interviewing to become air marshals, union officials say.
The average Border Patrol agent in the Tucson sector has 4.8 years of experience compared with 6.9 years throughout the agency.
"We have a lot of young agents and inexperienced agents," said Bud Tuffly, vice president for the Tucson sector union. "The problem is that the agency has done very little to retain experienced agents ... They need to start looking at how do we retain a guy with five to 10 years."
I say we buy them all new SUV's
Immigration And Naturalization Service Claims Its Critics Are As Dangerous As The KKK.
By Jim Wright
AN OFFICER SAFETY Bulletin produced by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has several local immigration reform leaders angry enough to spit.
The October 25 bulletin from the INS intelligence division characterizes several area immigration reform groups as being anti-immigration hate groups whose presence on the border may be a threat to illegal aliens and border patrol agents.
The five-page bulletin, which was sent to Chief Patrol Agent David Aguilar of the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, focuses on Ranch Rescue, a gathering of groups that assisted Douglas-area ranchers with cleanup and fence-mending chores over the weekend of October 27 to 29. The bulletin insinuates that the participants in that gathering could be armed and potentially dangerous.
The other groups listed in the bulletin as constituting a potential threat to migrants and patrol agents were the Concerned Citizens of Cochise County (CCCC), Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR), California Coalition for Immigration Reform, National Organization for European American Rights, Ku Klux Klan, Arizonans for Immigration Reform (AIR), National Grassroots Alliance, Foundation for Optimal Planetary Survival, Alliance for Stabilizing America's Population and the Immigration Reform Advocates.
Aguilar confirmed the bulletin is authentic and was generated at the INS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Aguilar told the Weekly his office was not involved in the production of the document. "No one in the (Tucson) Sector had anything to do with this. You can see this document was not done by anyone working here on the border. Someone in Washington, with limited knowledge of our situation here, wrote this thing. And they got it all wrong. I know these groups (the CCCC, AIR and FAIR). And I know many of the people in these groups. Some of my friends are in these groups. These people are not anti-immigrant, and (these) are not hate groups."
David Stoddard, a retired border patrol supervisor with 27 years of service, told the Weekly he is outraged by the bulletin. Stoddard is an active member of the CCCC who last year traveled at his own expense to testify before Congress on the problems he and his Cochise County neighbors are having along the border. Stoddard believes the bulletin is nothing more than an INS attempt to squelch criticism of its policies by besmirching its critics. "The CCCC has never been anti-immigration or anti-immigrant," said Stoddard. "And I deeply resent the inference (made in the bulletin) that we are a hate group. I think it's a sad day when our government attacks its citizens for exercising their Constitutional right to criticize their government."
Gee, what a surprise... and Yemenis were the subject of a Terror Alert a couple of weeks ago.
"Islam is Peace" and "Mexico is out best friend." It's all so clear to me now.
Are Yemeni Illegals future Republicans too? "Take back the Senate!"
"THIS puts the Democrats in a box!"
I can understand Mexicans crossing the border, to come up here to take jobs that Americans are willing to take, but not at the wages that employers can get away with by hiring illegals. But Yemenis? Crossing illegally and avoiding checkpoints? They can't be up to any good, and it's a good bet the Yemenis aren't crossing to take jobs operating leaf blowers in expensive neighborhoods.