Posted on 02/20/2007 4:44:47 PM PST by A. Pole
SAN LUIS RÍO COLORADO, Mexico: All along the U.S.-Mexican border, there are signs that the measures that the U.S. Border Patrol and other agencies have taken over the past year, from erecting new barriers to posting 6,000 National Guardsmen as armed sentinels, are beginning to slow the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.
For 10 years, Eduardo Valenzuela has been crossing the Mexican border near Yuma, Arizona, illegally, trekking over desert scrub and hopping on a freight train to get to his job with a construction company in Phoenix, Arizona.
But on a recent afternoon, Valenzuela and four travel companions from his hometown of Los Mochis plopped down on a bench in a park in the border town of San Luis Río Colorado, exhausted and dispirited. Border patrol agents had caught them two times over three days, hounding them with helicopters and four-wheel-drive trucks.
"It's become much more difficult," Valenzuela said, echoing the comments of dozens of other migrants.
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Border Patrol commanders argue the slackening flow of migrants belies the conventional wisdom that it is impossible to stem illegal migration along a 2,000 mile, or 3,200 kilometer, border. Many veteran officers in the force are now beginning to believe that with sufficient resources, it can be controlled.
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One of the migrants was a 51-year-old plumber from Acámbaro, Guanajuato, who asked that his name not be used because he was ashamed of the criminal conviction.
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"I had no idea until they grabbed us and told us we were going to court," he recalled. "They are using barbaric techniques." But he acknowledged the stint in jail had convinced him not to try again, even if he is unable to pay his son's college tuition.
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Only 20 million to go..........
Maybe as the birthrate in Mexico continues to fall, they will finally allow the Mayans to pass freely into Chiapas from Guatemala.
I think it's because Mexico is empty.
I'll believe it's real when Home Depot parking lots are empty of illegal day laborers.
I believe the International Herald Tribune is owned by the New York Times, so it might be true, but be sure to look for the liberal agenda here.
Bush still refuses to say: The United States will secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws.
Until Bush utters those simple words, it's all BS public relations while he works for amnesty.
And when we see a steady parade of employers of illegal aliens doing the perp walk into federal prison.
"even if he is unable to pay his son's college tuition."
I guess his son will have to cross on his own, then.
It has to slow down sometime.
Eventually they are all going to be here.........
Oops, Border Patrol bring out the panties?
Yeah, Bush is planning on taking the Guard off the border in a few months. Just wait and see what happens to the number of illegals then, especially if Bush gives them the amnesty which they and the Democrats so desperately desire.
I did sort of a California Roll through a Border Patrol checkpoint in Arizona last week....oops....I thought the officer was waving me through like they do in Oceanside.....I have the whole thing on video.
haha.
That is obviously possible. But why would someone leave Atlanta or Charlotte for "the country"? They stand out pretty good in these parts.... and generally Atlanta has been tolerant of them and nobody else is - particularly where it's mostly good 'ole boys, trucks, dogs, and dip.
Breaking the law can be justified, dontcha know.
I wonder if they decided this using there so called comprehensive view. I have my doubts about anything government says about the illegal problem.
Several migrants waiting their chance in San Luis curse under their breath in Spanish when asked about the soldiers and patrols. Some are indignant that the United States would treat them like enemies or criminals...
Parody-proof.
Mexico might be running out...
Ping!
Bingo. And... even if someone were deliberately playing with the numbers, we'd never know one way or the other. It's not as though we've been accounting for every illegal that crosses, or even a substantial percentage. IOW, any "reduction" is pure speculation at best, and probably worse than that - a deliberate, agenda-driven lie to make the American people think the problem is under control.
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