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Lawmen under siege along Mexico border
Washington Times ^ | November 15, 2007 | By Jerry Seper

Posted on 11/15/2007 7:15:54 AM PST by SUSSA

Alien and drug smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border have spawned a rise in violence against federal, state and local law-enforcement authorities, who say they are outmanned and outgunned.

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Assaults against Border Patrol agents have more than doubled over the past two years, many by Mexico-based alien and drug gangs more inclined than ever to use violence as a means of ensuring success in the smuggling of people and contraband.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff acknowledges that although the department has begun to make progress against "the criminals and thugs" operating along the U.S.-Mexico border, "we are beginning to see more violence in some border communities and against our Border Patrol agents as these traffickers ... seek to protect their turf.

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But many agents think they are viewed as "expendable" by the managers within Homeland Security and the Border Patrol. They say that while the number of agents overall has increased dramatically over the past year, the actual number of line agents has not seen a corresponding jump.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; invasion
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1 posted on 11/15/2007 7:15:55 AM PST by SUSSA
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many agents think they are viewed as "expendable" by the managers within Homeland Security and the Border Patrol.

I wonder where the agents came up with the idea, they are expendable?........./s

2 posted on 11/15/2007 7:18:49 AM PST by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk. I Will Be Voting for Mr. Duncan Hunter, fellow FReepers.)
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To: From One - Many

Maybe from Johnny (Nifong) Sutton and his cronies.


3 posted on 11/15/2007 7:21:09 AM PST by SUSSA
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To: SUSSA

Youtube of Mexican Military units helping illegals into the U.S. The Mexican Military fires on our border patrolmen and come into our country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKUJGT2xr4


4 posted on 11/15/2007 7:22:21 AM PST by Haddit (Hunter is still the Best)
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To: SUSSA

George Bush is the more likely candidate.


5 posted on 11/15/2007 7:26:53 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: SUSSA
we are beginning to see more violence in some border communities and against our Border Patrol agents as these traffickers ... seek to protect their turf

Excuse me, their turf? Anyone have el Presidente Jorge on their ping list?

6 posted on 11/15/2007 7:26:58 AM PST by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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From NumbersUSA

DEAR SUPPORTERS OF ‘ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT & SELF DEPORTATION’ OF ILLEGAL ALIENS,

Rep. Heath Shuler’s SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) got a gigantic boost today toward being the next major improvement in enforcement against illegal immigration.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), representing more than 600,000 small businesses in every state endorsed SAVE’s requirement that every employer run every new hire (and eventually old hires) through the electronic E-Verify system to ensure that illegal aliens don’t get American jobs. It said the bill strikes a “fair balance between increased enforcement and limiting regulatory burdens placed on small business.”

The 752,000-member International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers — as a way to protect American jobs for American workers — endorsed the Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act (SAVE Act).

The number of bi-partisan congressional co-sponsors of H.R. 4088 has passed 100! (View the list and see if your U.S. Representative is on it. If not, make sure you have sent your faxes and made your phone calls off your Action Buffet corkboard to press your Representative to sign up.)

Although a few bloggers have expressed concern that the SAVE Act of Rep. Shuler (D-N.C.) isn’t tough enough, it now has the official support of virtually all of the most hard-line opponents of illegal immigration in the U.S. House, including Tancredo (R-Colo.), Bilbray (R-Calif.), Barrett (R-S.C.), Hunter (R-Calif.), Culberson (R-Texas), Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), and Goode (R-Va.).


7 posted on 11/15/2007 7:28:32 AM PST by Haddit (Hunter is still the Best)
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Yeah their military invades our country on a regular basis and this administration does nothing about it.

But if a LEO or a citizen shoots one of the invaders they get railroaded into jail by Bush butt-boy Johnny (Nifong) Sutton or some other scumbag.


8 posted on 11/15/2007 7:28:51 AM PST by SUSSA
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To: SUSSA

If I lived anywhere near our southern border, I would spend ANY spare time I had as a volunteer... be it fence-building, armed patrol, Minuteman, you name it.

It’s about time that the illegal aliens were the ones under seige.


9 posted on 11/15/2007 7:31:09 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: SUSSA

What the hell is the point of having a National Guard? I say we shoot back and kill these tards.


10 posted on 11/15/2007 7:33:37 AM PST by Leg Olam (I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy)
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To: SUSSA

“Alien and drug smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border have spawned a rise in violence against federal, state and local law-enforcement authorities, who say they are outmanned and outgunned.”

We have terrorists at our border... and Bush basically ignores it.

WOT?

SUUUUURRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE.


11 posted on 11/15/2007 7:33:40 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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...the agency’s headquarters soon may be the largest regional office in the entire Border Patrol, “assigned the task of telling the public what a good job we’re doing.”
________________________________________________

RE-ELECT NO ONE !!!


12 posted on 11/15/2007 7:33:47 AM PST by cowdog77 (" Are there any brave men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?")
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To: SUSSA

Jorge Bush. Johnny Sutton. The Mexican Army. Working to keep the border-crossings safe for people willing to do the work you don’t want to do.


13 posted on 11/15/2007 7:34:33 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: snowrip
It’s about time that the illegal aliens were the ones under seige.

imho...it is long past that time....but I vote America begins today.....and what do I hear?....crickets.

14 posted on 11/15/2007 7:35:17 AM PST by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk. I Will Be Voting for Mr. Duncan Hunter, fellow FReepers.)
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To: Lee Heggy123

“What the hell is the point of having a National Guard?”

They’re strictly for border enforcement of other countries.
Haven’t ya heard?


15 posted on 11/15/2007 7:35:23 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: snowrip

When a foreign military invades our country, the proper response in to unleash hell on their country. Sending a hostile military force across our border is an act of war.


16 posted on 11/15/2007 7:38:08 AM PST by SUSSA
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To: samtheman
Jorge Bush. Johnny Sutton. The Mexican Army. Working to keep the border-crossings safe for people willing to do the work you don’t want to do.

Working to drive Americans' wages down.

17 posted on 11/15/2007 7:42:17 AM PST by SUSSA
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To: snowrip
I would spend ANY spare time I had as a volunteer... be it fence-building

Our government has built just five miles of the 854 miles of double-layer border fence mandated by the Secure Fence Act of 2006.

This outrageous fact begs a question...

Why? If the law mandated a double layer fence covering 854 miles, then how come such little progress has been made?

+ + Border fence funding hoax of 2006 and 2007

Grassfire.org's research staff has blown the lid off a deceptive and convoluted border fence funding sham being perpetrated on the citizens of our nation.

Warning -- reading this report will enrage you. It will infuriate you. Go here to access the full report:

http://www.grassfire.org/22042/offer.asp?rid=10896952

As you will see in this report, Congress and the Administration are pretending to support a real border fence but then working behind the scenes to ensure that the Secure Fence Act is never really implemented.

18 posted on 11/15/2007 7:43:25 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx
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To: taxed2death

One serious misstep our military strategists in Iraq took was to fail to secure the borders with Iran and Syria, both of which nations are hostile to our occupation and permitted terrorists to enter Iraq. Had effective intediction taken place, the resistance would have ended sooner. The Administration has an odd blind spot with respect to the need to control borders, whether our own or those of Iraq.


19 posted on 11/15/2007 7:45:22 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Lee Heggy123

We need to send about 3 heavy divisions into that cesspool and clean it out.


20 posted on 11/15/2007 7:47:19 AM PST by SUSSA
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