Here is the link to the article that I posted Sunday about Carrillo’s remarks:
Border Patrol Chief Rejects Mission Against Aliens, Drugs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887022/posts
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Can’t we get a non-Mexican/Hispanic/Cuban/Haitian/etc. to run anything to do with our borders?
I'll bet the good Congresscritter had no problem finding the funding for that monstrous Highway Bill....
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Imagine a border patrol that actually prevents non-citizens from entering?!?!
What’s next - A prison that keep inmates from leaving? Security guards that prevent vandals from looting the building? A park ranger that prevents poaching?
Too bad, so sad. Carrillo gave away more than he intended. Now he has to make amends.
Fire his backside! He is not to be believed.
"It's painfully obvious to me that I could have done a better job of articulating my talking points," said sector Chief Carlos X. Carrillo, who made the controversial comments last week at a town hall meeting in Laredo, Texas.Translation: Bush is underfunding us. I can't enforce the law and Bush does not want to enforce the law so as to benefit his cronies. Everyone knows this by now. However, I made a Chertoffian error by replacing my usual comments about "resources" and adopted a Rovian, mock-macho, false distraction "talking point." Chertoff did the same thing and look what happened to him after he started talking up "comprehensive reform" - he aged 10 years. I'm sorry, I won't make that slip again."As long as the resources are made available to the people who can make it happen, we will certainly do everything we can to ensure that a zero tolerance policy is brought forward. But to initiate a program like this, without the funding, would not be wise."
“It was a two-hour town hall meeting,” Chief Carrillo said. “One of the issues we discussed was illegal immigration. I said the Border Patrol cannot address the causes of illegal immigration. We’re not supposed to address it. Our focus is enforcement, our focus is enforcement at the border.”
mmmmmmm bo Carillo, that is NOT what you said.
More spin needed.
Just another fool working for our govt.
It would be great if Carrillo or one of the others step forward and said, “There is NO border and I’ll soon be out of a job.”
How can he tell the difference between an illegal and a terrorist?
"As long as the resources are made available to the people who can make it happen, we will certainly do everything we can to ensure that a zero tolerance policy is brought forward. But to initiate a program like this, without the funding, would not be wise."
This A--hole needs his walking papers. In the first statement he says he should have done a better job of saying he wasn't going to do his job, and in the second statement he says, "to start a zero tolerance would not be wise". Same thing as say screw you congressman. I'll do as I please!
Anyone else want to vote this the understatement of the year? Sadly, I think he's lying and stated his beliefs correctly yesterday. And we wonder why we have an illegal alien problem.
Why apologize? He said exactly what he meant to say. Now fire his butt!
“the agency’s mission is stopping terrorists, not illegal aliens or drug smugglers”
Last I heard the drug smuggler the two BP shot in the a$$ was suing the US government `cause Mr. Sutton forgot to have him sign a Release as a condition of his plea bargain.
Mebbe Chief Carillo can sue us as well for defamation: libel and slander per se; that is, for damaging him in his employment for questioning why a Border Patrol chief doesn’t feel obligated to use his law enforcement assets to enforce our southwestern border.
Now he speaks of zero tolerance, another whining escape route.
Between "zero tolerance", and total inactivity, there is a huge area of compromise.
Find someone who understands this, dammit!
“It’s painfully obvious to me that I could have done a better job of articulating my talking points,” said sector Chief Carlos X. Carrillo, who made the controversial comments last week at a town hall meeting in Laredo, Texas.”
He did a great job of revealing who and what he is really all about.. Even in his so call apology...
Another Sack
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It reflects poorly on the President that this bozo hasn’t already been fired.
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"As long as the resources are made available to the people who can make it happen, we will certainly do everything we can to ensure that a zero tolerance policy is brought forward.
Now Carlos is caught in a lie, last Thursday it wasn't his or the Border Patrol's job or mission, today he tells us that that the problem is a lack of funding.
From The Laredo Morning Times on Aug 16:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18710877&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6
Border Patrol agents don't have the responsibility of apprehending illegal immigrants, Carlos X. Carrillo, chief patrol agent for the Laredo sector, said at a town hall meeting Wednesday."The Border Patrol is not equipped to stop illegal immigrants," Carrillo said, noting that illegal narcotics are also not on the agents priority list.
"The Border Patrol mission is not to do any of those things," he emphasized.