we must as a humane civilized people at least provide the invaders with a free flight home.
Posted on 02/02/2006 7:47:22 AM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Two sailors have been arrested on suspicion of helping to smuggle immigrants through a patrol station near the San Ysidro border crossing, according to a Navy spokesman.
The two San Diego-based sailors were scheduled to appear in federal court Thursday, said Scott Sutherland, deputy public affairs officer for Navy Region Southwest in San Diego.
Both men are petty officers second class, Sutherland told the San Diego Union-Tribune. One worked as a military police officer at the shore-patrol station.
The other, a friend of the first man, was assigned to a helicopter squadron at North Island Naval Air Station, Sutherland said.
A spokeswoman with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement said agents had taken the men into custody, but declined additional comment.
The shore-patrol building sits adjacent the U.S-Mexico border, about 100 yards from the port of entry.
Keel haul them! Idiots!
Two sailors arrested in immigrant smuggling
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20060202-9999-6m2sailors.html
By Steve Liewer
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 2, 2006
Two San Diego-based sailors have been arrested on suspicion that they helped to smuggle immigrants through a shore-patrol station near the San Ysidro border crossing, a Navy spokesman confirmed last night.
The two men will be arraigned this morning in U.S. District Court, said Scott Sutherland, deputy public affairs officer for Navy Region Southwest in San Diego.
Both men are 2nd-class petty officers, he said. One of them was a master-at-arms – the Navy's name for a military police officer – for Navy Region Southwest who stood guard at the shore-patrol station.
The second, a storekeeper with a helicopter squadron at North Island Naval Air Station, apparently was a friend of the other, Sutherland said.
Virginia Kice, a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman, said customs agents had taken the men into custody, but she could not give other details.
The shore-patrol building sits astride the U.S-Mexico border, about 100 yards from the port of entry.
“It's basically set up to help keep an eye on sailors who are going down to Mexico,” Sutherland said.
Do you know how much money is to be made, even for amateur coyotes?
idiots is right!
They, and all smugglers, deserve at least 10 years behind bars.
Enough already. Build a fence and start encforcing the laws on the books. Cut out all the welfare freebies, no more anchor babies, and fine/imprison employers of illegals.
fyi
These days it should be treated as treason.
Hmmmm. I wonder if they were "smuggling" good looking females.
Do you know how much money is to be made, even for amateur coyotes?
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They should be punished as any major felon should be with a nice stay in the Federal pen. But don't look for any help from Washington in prosecuting them...
Why should they be punished for helping a person accross the border when that person is usually allowed to stay anyway? The illegal alien entering illegally is only charged a misdemeanor citation.(/sarcasm)
That's what I wondered too.
I wonder what led them to do this.
Was it greed? Were they being paid?
Was it someone they knew, or a family member of someone they knew?
It doesn't really matter why they did it, they need to be severely punished.
I'm just curious as to why they would throw away their careers and get themselves tossed in jail.
I suspect money, but who knows.
We'll have to wait and see what comes out and then wonder how many others are doing this as well.
Yep, a billion-dollar fence would have solved this problem.
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"I suspect money, but who knows.
We'll have to wait and see what comes out and then wonder how many others are doing this as well."
For those of you who don't live in San Diego, sailors have been smuggling Mexican girlfriends across the border for at least two generations now. Sometimes, when you're drunk, the night just can't end in Tijuana.
Here's a link to a GoogleEarth FlyTo for the border crossing.
http://explorer.altopix.com/gotoearth.php?id=h5zzsy
Follow the border to the right a while to reach the TJ airport area where the latest tunnel was found.
ping
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