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To: flutters
On Tuesday, Arizona Governor Janet 'Reno' Napolitano deployed National Guard troops to various critical locations in Arizona in response to the new "High"/Orange threat level.

Of course, she'll send National Guard troops all over the place except for our WIDE OPEN border!

In other news, Border Patrol has reassigned their agents away from the border fences to cover the crossing points instead. New security measures at the crossing points have caused long delays. More personnel are needed in order to provide less inconvenience to tourists and shoppers re-entering the U.S. In the meantime, no one is watching the borders!!!

Am I angry/outraged about this? Naaahh...what gave you that idea?

Then, the Civil Homeland Defense bunch out of Tombstone, AZ decided to release some militia manifesto stating that they will stop, detain, and use "force if necessary" to secure the border. Ranch Rescue just had 2 members arrested for allegedly pistol-whipping an illegal alien pair from El Salvador. American Border Patrol has condemned CHD's new modus operandi and a feud is developing between all of the groups.

So, the Federal Government is moving the agents away from the border fence. The Arizona Governor is derelict in her duty and refuses to assign National Guard to the unguarded border fence. And the local "neighborhood watch" groups keeping an eye on the border fence are losing whatever solidarity they gained over the past months - starting to feud amongst themselves - and will be less effective for it.

I'm thinking about putting a big sign up on the unguarded border fence that says in several languages including arabic:

Welcome to the unguarded U.S. border!
<--- Potential terrorists and enemy combatants to the left
Illegal aliens and criminals to the right --->
Please proceed in an orderly manner - no pushing - you're all going to get in.


19 posted on 03/20/2003 9:24:34 AM PST by Spiff
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To: Spiff
The County Supervisor in question must have gotten some heat, because he sent out an update this morning:

***snip***
I need to add a clarification to the email I sent out yesterday after a conference call with the Governor. Subsequent information from the Arizona Department of Homeland Security advises that the additional people to man the international ports will be coming from INS/Customs assets and that the Border Patrol will be 'beefing' patrol activity between the ports.
***snip***

This may explain the comment from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff about BP agents lining the border at 100 yd. intervals...

HJ

23 posted on 03/20/2003 9:59:17 AM PST by HiJinx (Blessed is the Nation whose God is the Lord...)
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