[SandRat]

Grupo Beta agents Bertha Alicia De la Rosa, left, and Waldo Montiel talk on a road running south along the U.S.-Mexico border just west of Naco. (By Jonathan Clark)

[SandRat]

For your consideration and edification on a border issue.

[ncountylee]

Johnny Bernal, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol Tucson Sector, said his agency viewed Grupo Beta as a partner in border safety — not as an advocate for illegal migration.

Hey Bernal...the taxpayer is paying you to stop not facilitate illegal immigration. Are you registered as a foreign agent?

[stopem]

"“We give them an orientation on personal safety, we give them food and water, we advise them of the dangers of crossing the desert and we try to convince them to turn around and go home,” she said. “But we don’t tell them anything about how to cross the border.

If taxpayers are paying for this we need to stop and now! Nothing like giving a mixed message. Here's a message that should be there in it's place ARMED GUARDS turning them around and demanding they go back.

[axes_of_weezles]

Hey

Pictures of Dane. ;)

[glorgau]

Suddenly, De la Rosa noticed movement in the brush a few hundred yards ahead.

"Reconnaissance by fire" - somebody should have put a long burst into that bush. Just to be safe.

[John Jorsett]

De la Rosa has little contact with Border Patrol agents other than exchanging greetings across the border fence.

“I don’t speak English,” she explained.

Earlier that morning when the truck pulled up across from two Border Patrol vehicles whose drivers had stopped to chat, De la Rosa decided to take advantage of the English-speaking reporter who was riding along that day.

“Ask them if they’ve seen any Minutemen,” said De la Rosa as the truck rolled to a stop.

I'm not sure what's going on here. Border Patrol agents speak Spanish. She could ask them herself. Perhaps she doesn't know that, but that would be a surprising ignorance on her part.

[DumpsterDiver]

Grupo Beta is the agency within the Mexican National Immigration Institute charged with assisting migrants — both nationals and foreigners — traveling on Mexican soil.

They assist nationals in leaving the country and they assist foreigners in staying leaving the country.

[Eagles6]

Mexico exports its second largest cash commodity to America, poverty, and rakes in billions in remittances. Sen. Brownback wants to help the impoverished, according to his faith, albeit by stealing from taxpayers. Where is your Christian compassion for us Senator?

Give a man a fish that you stole from someone else and he will eat for a day. Affect a positive change in his narco-corrupt government and he will prosper.

[Shuttle Shucker]

The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers
inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists'
abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees.
Here's an interesting new thread on new legal reform progress that finally
emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts

We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the
neighborly thing to do?

[mtbopfuyn]

Complete and open borders. Free taxpayer funded education, food, medical, housing, and ranches for illegals. Turning a blind eye to "students" overstaying their forged visas. Known terrorists attending Yale. Cells all over the country. It's over folks....

[brytlea]

We have all fallen down the rabbit hole, but it's not really Wonderland.
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