[BurbankKarl]

oh, here we go...lets have the Bush Apologists start posting here...

[gubamyster]

ping

[Reagan Man]

Border Patrol agents who executed highly popular roundups of illegal aliens in Southern California last month – the first of their kind in recent memory – say they've been told to stop such enforcement action...

If its working, let it be. Let the BP do their job.

[jnarcus]

Good for the guys at KFI...I am steamed about what we are NOT doing at the border....time to build a fence

[TheEaglehasLanded]

Another cave by W and his admin, keep doing this crap and the base will stay home.

[wasnova]

The truth is that mass sweeps could have immediate and significant negative effects on the economy of S. Cal.

It's not just the Latino vote. It's both, and that makes it a tough political issue.

What politician would risk alienating the Latino vote And squashing the economy of southern California at the same time - with the election just months away?

[LiberalBassTurds]

Anyone see any written speculation about them having a different agenda for these sweeps? Not to put my tinfoil hat on but I noticed they started after the announcements of potential attacks this summer and speculation that Mexico could be an entry point. Maybe our boys were looking for something else and found what they needed.

LBT

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[TLI]

There are a few individuals here that continually expound on how the united States of America can not possibly close the mexico border, just fence or wall it off and keep it closed except for the proper crossing points and bridges.

Here is a bit of my feedback to such nonsense.

http://photos.iofc.org/storage/images/preview/korea_border.jpg
South Koreans keeping the peace.


http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/seastars/img/zfence2.jpg
Border `cross tha bayyyyeaaaa!


http://www.loogadis.co.za/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/3723-200x200.jpg
Responders from a slow moving APC.  My Idea is to trade armor for HIGH speed.


http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1058035140145_2003/07/17/wld_korea,0.jpg
North Korean blockhouse that I was told are too expensive to build by the u.S on the mexican border.  Strange, North Korea is FAMOUS for being just absolutly dirt poor.  The can build blockhouses on their border.  I bet if we had blockhouses on our border we could keep fresh paint on them and fix the roof.


http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/18/bush.skorea/vstory.korea.frontier.jpg
My lord goodness gracious!  Are those electrical wires ?  

HOW MEAN SPRITED.

: )

[TheSpottedOwl]

I emailed Asa and he didn't email me back :-(

I feel so...used.

[novacation]

ping

[swampfox98]

This is a bad time for this to happen. Its about three years too late. Bush should have made an effort to stem the tide of illegals the minute he took office. Instead he has himself and the entire country in a terrible mess.

Kerry is using 3 million dollars to pander to the illegals, so they will vote for him.

For years, I have said this day is coming, where illegals will take over the vote. I am the enemy here for posting it, and nobody speaks to me because of it. Amazing.

[MissAmericanPie]

Maybe the activists should be grabbed first and deported?

[ZULU]

"The official, a former congressman who works under Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, attempted to defend the Bush administration record on immigration enforcement, but was repeatedly pressured by Kobylt to justify the canceling of the sweeps."

IF we had a sane alternative party running against Bush, they would kill him on this issue. But we don't. The Dems are as bad or even worse.

Somebody should bring a class action suti against the Bush Administration for failure to carry out one of its primary Constitutional responsibilities - protection of our borders.

Bush's record on illegal invaders is as bad as a Democrat's. So is his genuflecting to the Mexicans and their commander in chief Vicente Fox.

[Servant of the 9]

Asa Hutchinson is a weenie from Arkansas.
Why won't the Bush administration give us a strong manager from a BORDER STATE that actually understands the issue instead of a clown operating on theory?

Because George W. Bush, much as I like him, has always been soft on illegal immigration.

So9

[ApesForEvolution]

Don't worry, if W hasn't snatched defeat from the jaws of victory YET, there will be plenty more opportunities. What a telling and damning piece of evidence. I'm sure Vicente Fox is THRILLED! He's been building massive CONSULATES all OVER the united states of America - TO HANDLE ALL THE MEXICAN NATIONALS ILLEGALLY TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY!

[CdMGuy]

Thanks for posting this. I heard John's interview. It was a sad commentary on the Bush administration. Having lived in So Cal for 34 years, the invasion of illegals from Mexico and Central America is killing the US.

In a nutshell, the problem is that Bush is an incompetent president. Unfortunately, the alternative is even worse. The thought of having to vote for George Bush in November is sickening. His father was mediocre as president. The son has been a disaster.

We took our eye off of the goal of capturing or killing Osama and blowing billions of dollars with over a thousand US military killed in Iraq. And, we continue to close our eyes to the invasion of the US from the south.

[oldleft]

I don't know if anyone brought this up, but it seems to me that Bush's coziness with Fox is costing us all. Mexico need to liberalize it's land ownership and intellectual property laws, reform it's courts and allow collective bargining. The illegals are Mexico's safety valve. Mexico gets the poor out and they send money back. A pretty convient way to avoid public unrest.

If you want to check out some of the allies of the illegals check this out - www.aztlan.net
quite an eye opener.

Remeber, Texas was part of the US before it was ever part of Mexico.

[dennisw]

Show 'em the sharp toe of the booot.

[Terabitten]

Responded Hutchinson: "We're going to continue the enforcement operations. They'll be coordinated between the Border Patrol and the ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents. And that's the commitment that we make."

How is this a cave? It sounds to me like the 12 man team was a test run to see if it's effective. It obviously is. ICE is made up of former US Customs agents, INS agents, and agents (1811 series) from a few other agencies, so it would make sense to co-ordinate with them.

I'm as much in favor of sealing the border as anyone, but I really don't understand how anyone can spin this as caving in. The program has been so successful that many illegals have stopped coming out in the day. What if Hutchinson is just putting it on hiatus long enough to let them feel secure again, and then he restarts it? Net result? Better effectiveness.

[budwiesest]

The illegal immigrants (Mexicans) are the equivalent of the money printing/interest rate setting arm of the Federal Reserve.
They represent a low-cost production input into an economy that may be expanding. Like cheap dollars, cheap labor plays a role in pumping up recoveries. Unlike cheap labor, cheap dollars don't vote, don't require social services and are quick to assimilate into the economy and the American way.