Posted on 03/08/2014 4:43:35 PM PST by mandaladon
Top administration officials have directed 21,000 border patrol officers to retreat whenever illegal immigrants throw rocks at them, and to avoid getting in front of foreign drug-smugglers’ vehicles as they head north with their drug cargoes.
“Agents shall not discharge firearms in response to thrown or hurled projectiles… agents should obtain a tactical advantage in these situations, such as seeking cover or distancing themselves,” said the instructions, issued Mar. 7, under the signature of Michael Fisher, chief of U.S. Border Patrol.
Agents were also directed to keep their weapons holstered when drug smugglers drive by.
Agents can’t use guns against “a moving vehicle merely fleeing from agents,” say the instructions.
The new instructions do allow agents to use guns to defend themselves from vehicles that drive at them. “Agents shall not discharge their firearms at a moving vehicle unless the agent has a reasonable belief that… deadly force is being used against an agent,” the new instructions say.
However, the instructions also suggest that officers be penalized if they don’t step back. Agents “should not place themselves in the path of a motor vehicle or use their body to block a vehicles’s path,” according to new instructions.
The new curbs were praised by advocates for greater immigration, including Juanita Molina, director of the Border Action Network. New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, and Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Menendez is one of the drafters of the June 2013 Senate immigration bill, which would boost the inflow of legal immigrants and guest workers up to 40 million over the next decade. During the same period, roughly 40 million Americans will turn 18.
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Bump
Is your main function simply to bash Bush?
Can you let it go!!
Last I checked, it’s now 2014, we have a new battle, stay focused!!!!!
That’s at least a good start.
Reference?
They did, but the supposed 'good guys' are too afraid to use the tools available to them. Libs might call 'em names, you know.
Stolen elections have consequences.
dereliction of duty at the top....
How about ya shoot em and leave em to rot where they fall?
They’re not called “sticks”; they’re called “pikes”.
bama administration is protecting drug cartels and human traffickers.
Keep an open mind Dunc!
The way events are unfolding, there may be a shortage of pikes at certain times and places - stout ‘sticks’ may have to suffice.
Oh, thee of little faith and less imagination...
Hast thou not contemplated the concept of more than one head on a single pike, like shish-kabob?
You closeted Jacobin!!!
That’s totally disrespectful of tradition! I take a conservative Burkean position on this issue and will leave “shish-kabobs” to Kipling’s “lesser breeds without the Law”.
One head to a pike was established by our ancestors and I stand by that practice.
I stand corrected.
“Sticks”, the backup plan shall be.
“Heads on Sticks”.
Hasn’t got quite the same ring, though.
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