Posted on 05/09/2006 6:21:25 AM PDT by IrishMike
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are. According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants -- and if and when violence is used against border crossers.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed.
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.
"This ... simply makes two basic statements -- that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."
Minuteman members were not so sanguine about the arrangement, however, saying that reporting their location to Mexican officials nullifies their effectiveness along the border and could endanger their lives.
"Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time," said Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels.
"They just basically endangered the lives of American people."
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Actually, the numbers were coming down, but after 9/11 they are back up - I'm not so sure Gore or Kerry would have done that.
Do you remember that day not so long ago when you felt anger like this? It's a difference of degree, but not kind.
That's O.K. by me. Have a nice day then.
Good mercy, the stuff we don't know.
If this is true, why???...
Why are we doing this?
Could someone please explain this to me.
To steal a line from "The Impeached One", I feel your pain.
I should have used the word "expelled" : )Yes, that would have been much more appropriate, but then we wouldn't have been able to engage in such delightful conversation.
I call the new tone in Washington from the administration Compassionate Socialism.
"Bush took office - that is "nothing" to you? Even Hitler only got up to 13 million.
Are you comparing Bush to hitler?
Nah, I think he's comparing the rest of us to Nazis.
It was, but you're such an ardent supporter I thought perhaps you were included in his inner circle. You seem to think he knows what he's doing and talking about that the rest of us have totally misunderstood where he's coming from, I pose it to you now. What the hell is he doing? Why the double standard concerning our borders?
The best part is Bush campaigned on the SCAAP program.
....We have expelled over 6 million illegal aliens since Bush took office - that is "nothing" to you? Even Hitler only got up to 13 million....
Oh for crying out loud we have a turnstile at the border, they are apprehended, sent south, then walk 100 yards east or west and enter again, get real. There are less apprehensions than before Bush and that is because more are staying for amnesty than before. How many are caught and released? How many show up for their "hearings"?
Your statistics are deceptive. You fool no one but yourself.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/border/125854
Neil Cavuto will be doing a segment on this shortly.
Keep you powder dry, and your blade sharpened.
Did he?! When? 2000? (Do you have a source for this? Thanks.)
It's true. Our politicians (far too may of them) seem to be convinced, 1) That the citizens cannot help fix this, and 2) that somehow we must coddle, cow-tow to, and facilitate the illegals coming here. I disagree with those notions completely...and believe that the American people are fed up with those, of any political persuasion, who do agree with them.
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