Illegal border crossers step up effort to enter U.S. after Bush's speech

KVOA Tucson Channel 4 News ^ | Paul Cicala

[SandRat]

Thousands of illegal immigrants cross the U.S-Mexico border into Arizona every day.

“To better yourself, for your family, and for a better life,” says Alfonso Miramontez, who’s from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, a town that's about an 8-hour bus ride from Nogales.

Miramontez says, once he heard the U.S. might be sending National Guard troops to the border, he immediately headed north, and was planning to illegally cross into Arizona Monday night.

“It’ll now be much harder to cross through the desert," says Miramontez, ”but the Army (National Guard) on the border won’t stop me.”

Like Miramontez, Eduardo Reyes, an immigrant from Mexico City, just arrived to the border town of Nogales, Sonora with the intention, “of crossing into Arizona and finding work in the United States,” says Reyes.

Miramontez says, “It’s bad in Mexico. It’s also hard because the U.S. soldiers are fighting wars in other countries, and now, many are going to be along the border. When I cross, it scares me and makes me think twice.”

Miramontez adds, “I just want to be happy, and I’ll try to work in the U.S., no matter what happens.”

[SandRat]

WANTED for Violating US LAW


Alfonso Miramontez says, once he heard the U.S. might be sending National Guard troops to the border, he immediately headed north, and was planning to illegally cross into Arizona Monday night.

[SandRat]

Border PING

[A CA Guy]

So this points again that the first thing we need to do is to SECURE THE BORDERS.

[A CA Guy]

So this points again that the first thing we need to do is to SECURE THE BORDERS.

[sangoo]

I know that the President is very understanding of people who just want to better themselves and their families. Is bank robbery going to be OK now with the new amnesty plan?

[KoRn]

I hope this POS met with some sort of significant misfortune along the way.

[Personal Responsibility]

...and when he gets asked how long he has been in the country he will say "a little over 6 years....Now shut up and give me my card, Gringo!"

[VOA]

It’s also hard because the U.S. soldiers are fighting wars in other countries,
and now, many are going to be along the border. When I cross, it scares me
and makes me think twice.”

Not to worry Alfonso.
You're not illegally entering Mexico's southern border.
If you were doing that, you'd be very afraid.
And/or killed.

[smoothsailing]

Sounds like we will see a "spike" up in illegals trying to get in before the Guard is in place. To be expected, I suppose.

Good reason for W to come out tomorrow and say; " I was just kidding about the 6,000 Guardsmen. It's really gonna be 6,000 spec op snipers."

(Yeah, I know, I'm bad)

[Old Sarge]

My God, what must our troops in Iraq think... ?

You don't want to know.

You really, truly don't.

[Americanwolfsbrother]

Estimates for the first 3 months of 2006 have approximetely 470,000 illegal aliens crossing through Arizona. We'll be looking at between 1.5 and 2 million coming through Arizona this summer as they try to beat the enforcement on the border. Residents of Arizona are going to take it in the shorts on this one and our lovely governor is going to help the illegals as much as she can.AWB

[gubamyster]

ping

[SandRat]

Sheriff Joe and his Posse could be quite busy.

[jpsb]

After listening to President Bush's speech if I lived in Mexico I'd pack my things and head north too.

[nicmarlo]

Residents of Arizona are going to take it in the shorts on this one and our lovely governor is going to help the illegals as much as she can.

: (

[investigateworld]

If I were not so lazy, I'd dig up my posts to Marine Inspector from several weeks ago.
I mentioned a 'legal' Mexican immigrant told me they were having a fire sale by the coyotes in the Tiajuana sector.
As the Mexican govt/drug Cartels set the prices and distributes the operating areas, they most have known what was coming down.

[VOA]

After listening to President Bush's speech if I lived in Mexico I'd pack
my things and head north too.

If the MSM had done their job last night, they'd have been doing
the after-speech reports from places in Mexico.
To get comment from the real target audience.

Of course, it's hard to get a good interview of someone when
they are hauling their suitcase in hopes of catching the next
bus for the border with El Norte.

[AmeriBrit]

Perhaps we shouldn't only put the NG on the border but also bring in the CeeBee's and have them build another Panama Canal only 3 times as wide and separate the U.S. from Mexico once and for all.

[VOA]

Good reason for W to come out tomorrow and say; " I was just kidding about
the 6,000 Guardsmen. It's really gonna be 6,000 spec op snipers."

This evening Alberto Gonzales (sp?), suppossedly the Attorney General
of the USA, was on TV...saying that the "rules of engagement" for
the troops on the border hadn't been set yet.

My suspicion is that our troops will never have a magazine loaded.
And that our troops will be instructed to NEVER fire and to just
run away at the first sign of a challenge by a coyote or drug runner.

Dubya doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to explain some dead
Mexicans on the border (even if they had it coming) to his buddy Vicente.

I will be more than happy to eat crow (with much BBQ sauce, please)
if the BP and NG combine to really control the border and turn back
the invaders.