It's the right message for Americans! We need to utterly destroy any and ALL invaders! I'll mow my own grass... as usual!
Posted on 02/08/2006 9:45:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Look! It's Border Bob!!
It's the right message for Americans! We need to utterly destroy any and ALL invaders! I'll mow my own grass... as usual!
Wrong message to Mexico?! A lot of Freepers have defended Reyes in the past, based on his career in the Border Patrol, but this convinces me that he is now just another paid puppet turning his back on his former coworkers.
The wrong message to Mexico is our continual lack of action. The cartels who "own" Northern Mexico and have Mexico's central government under threat/payoff understands only one message: overwhelming force. It's 230 "incidents" past time for military deployment.
"I think he's crazy," said Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and a former Border Patrol agent who cautioned against "sensationalism" in addressing the incursions."
The Dems in EP think Sylvestre is the one who's crazy.
El Paso Dems Question Reyes [Texas U.S. Democrat Rep. on border security with online survey]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1575376/posts?page=1
Here's a better idea.
El Paso County Sheriff Leo Samaniego questions whose side U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes (D) El Paso, is on.
Rep. Reyes addressed members of a Congressional subcommittee in Washington on Tuesday, following testimony by border Sheriff's, including Samaniego and Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West. The Sheriff's believe incursions along the border are frequent, and getting more dangerous. And they believe the Mexican military is involved - particularly in the January 23rd incursion in Hudspeth County in which drug smugglers were rescued by heavily armed men who crossed the Rio Grande to help them return to Mexico.
Representative Reyes believes that Deputies may be sensationalizing their accounts of the incursions, and that it's dangerous to draw conclusions before a full investigation is completed.
Sheriff Samaniego had to leave Tuesday's hearing before listening to all of Rep. Reyes' statements.
On Wednesday, KFOX's Ben Swann showed the Congressman's testimony to Samaniego in our Washington, DC Bureau. The Sheriff was stunned.
"For a glimpse there he sounded more like a member of the Mexican government, rather than the American government," said Samaniego.
On Tuesday, Reyes told KFOX that he's concerned about how the facts are being presented. "I think that maybe there are some agendas working here," Reyes told us. "And that's why we need to be very clear about what happened, how it happened, who was involved and where we need to go from here."
Samaniego replied to that saying "I don't need to make a bigger deal out of something, other than what it is. I think it's big enough."
KFOX also asked the Sheriff about Reyes' comments that the Deputies who were involved in the Jan. 23 incident in Hudspeth County were wrong about the type of weapons they encountered.
A Deputy Sheriff testified that he saw a Mexican military Humvee with a 50-caliber weapon mounted on the back on U.S. soil. Reyes testified that he could understand in the heat of the moment someone could make a mistake, but that his own Army experience made him question the Deputy's claim that such a powerful weapon could be on the vehicle.
"He's (the deputy) a Marine, a Marine Corps veteran," said Samaniego. "He (Reyes) made it sound like the guy doesn't know what the heck he is talking about."
Also on Wednesday, the border sheriffs' briefed White House officials on the recent incursions. They tell KFOX that they felt it was a good meeting and that the White House was interested in the information they provided.
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Yup, Reyes is going on my Un-American Activities Committee list of suspected traitors. If Congress ever cranks that much-needed body back up...
Spinning in his grave, or shaking his head in disgust at the Bush administration.
'Nuff said. I do not understand why a border governor has not gone to the President and if need be, the media and demand that his state be defended.
Why doesn't the Lone Star state reorganize the Texas Rangers? They have a history of dealing with border problems.
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Great pic!
The original is truly amazing, it is one of the old panoramics, and those men are solid as far as you can see in both directions.
This is a forgotten time in BP history. When the Border Patrol we have now was formed, they did not want to be associated with these guys, and started a new agency. The men in the pic. were mostly retired Texas Rangers and US Marshalls that were recruited to guard the border because the LE at the time was overwhelmed. They were known to be pretty rough in keeping illegal traffic out. I bet some of the BP officers today would like to have these guys watching their backs.
LOL. The US Border Patrol is chock full of former Marines, Rangers, Green Berets and Navy Seals. Each Border Patrol Sector has their own SRT in addition to BORTAC the national Border Patrol SWAT. You can put all the military on the border you want is in't going to amount to anything. It's about management.
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