Posted on 07/07/2002 9:31:51 AM PDT by Spiff
(Sierra Vista, AZ) Reports from unnamed informants within the U.S. Border Patrol describe an incident which occurred on July 2nd at a checkpoint 20 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Sources say that a number of illegals were spotted by Border Patrol agents moving through the desert in an apparent attempt to go around a permanent checkpoint located on State Route 90 just 12 miles north of Sierra Vista, Arizona. It was surmised by the agents that these illegals had been dropped off from a smuggler’s vehicle a few miles south of the checkpoint and were going to meet back up with the smuggler vehicle a few miles north after circumventing the checkpoint. From there, the illegals would have been driven to Interstate Highway 10 and taken to points unknown. This sort of activity is a common occurrence at this checkpoint.
The illegals were apprehended by the Border Patrol and taken into custody. It was determined that among the group was one Yemeni national and several Mexicans. When questioned, the Yemeni national said that he had been among a group of six Yemenis who had earlier crossed the border together. The report of the five additional Yemeni intruders caused the Border Patrol to dispatch a helicopter from Tucson (approximately 70 miles northwest) to the checkpoint. In addition, it is reported that U.S. Customs dispatched a helicopter to the area of the apprehension to conduct a search from the air. The Yemenis were not found and may still be at large. Sources say that the FBI was notified but that the level of FBI interest and/or involvement is not known at this time.
These same sources report that U.S. Border Patrol Agent in charge of the Tucson Sector, David Aguilar, has ordered his agents to keep quiet about this incident. Reportedly, Aguilar has issued several such gag orders recently – demanding that Border Patrol agents keep quiet about happenings along the border. In June, Aguilar spoke at the annual convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and told of the government’s humanitarian responsibility to protect Mexican citizens who are illegally crossing into the United States (See Washington Times - June 27). As evidence of Aguilar’s confusion about the Border Patrol’s mission, he recently redeployed his agents away from the border itself and has instead deployed them into the larger desert areas to rescue illegals found to be in distress. It is also reported that Aguilar has ridiculously attempted to explain away the trails of footprints, garbage, and trail markings left by the hordes of illegals crossing through private, state, and federal lands as instead being evidence of the area’s new popularity to hikers and campers because of the success of the Border Patrol at apprehending and stopping the illegals.
I say we buy them all new SUV's
WE MAY NOT have Chief Border Patrol Agent David Aguilar to kick around anymore.
Anonymous sources within the Border Patrol told the Weekly that Aguilar may be promoted to an executive position within the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). If and when this occurs, Aguilar will have former INS commissioner Doris Meissner to thank for the hand-up. Meissner's last day as INS commissioner was last Friday, but we are told she wired Aguilar's promotion before she left.
Since it is not clear when or if Aguilar will be leaving us, it's a little early to do a post-mortem on his 16-month tenure as the head of the patrol's Tucson Sector. Instead, the Weekly prepared a short list of issues the chief could carry back to HQ INS policy makers.
1. Incidents such as rapes, theft and drug running just might be reduced if applicants for patrol agent positions were given lie detector tests, such as those given by local law enforcement agencies throughout Southern Arizona.
2. Along that same line, background checks on agent applicants should be conducted by the FBI, not a low-bid contract agency that then turns around and sub-contracts to a regional low bidder for the final product.
Something I learned in during the Clinton years was that the fish stinks from the head down. It isn't Aguilar that needs to be fired since he will be replaced by someone equally incompetent. If you want to restore the sovereignty of the U.S. borders you're going to need a new President.
The guy should be impeached for his unwillingness to defend our border, but since the whole government is corrupt I wouldn't hold my breath.
That's an interesting comment. I bet freepers would go ballistic if, say the editor of one of the big daily newspapers said that about one of their reports.
I have received similar info re crossings at the Canada/US bridges in the Buffalo NY area. I did not and will not publish it because it was too vague for me to do so.
Accordingly, I believe the lesson of this thread should be "There are occurances at border crossings that are not being revealed to the American public." Occurances that would reveal a much clearer picture of the threats we face.
And perhaps that is as it should be...
Unfortunately Zig ziglar kinda feels the same way.. He's "conflicted" about enforcing the law.
You know, I used to be a construction worker.. but I hated to build things.
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."
Actually, this information would have been passed through at the very least three sources -- two sources unamed and the third source named Spiff -- ADR.
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!"
Lets nuke mekka (we must nuke mecca someday anyway).
Note small m in mecca, the nuclear waste disposal area that it (soon) is.
I see it as a _low_profile_ nuclear waste disposal area:)
I didn't send it to O'Reilly. One of my sources sent it and cc'd me. I combined his information with other information I had received and posted the story here.
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