Posted on 09/12/2014 12:41:16 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
Department Discusses Pentagon-Style Structure to Stem Migrants, Crime
WASHINGTON—Homeland Security officials are planning to create a military-like chain of command to police the Southwest U.S. border, in what could be the department's most significant restructuring since its creation in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The plan would create a Southern Command, or Southcom in military parlance, bringing together groups of agents from Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, these people said.
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The want to make sure those mean militia people don’t bother the 30-year old “unaccompanied children.”
Ping
Once they perfect the protection of the border, they can then be turned inwards to control us...
The magazine subscriptions alone needed to keep them occupied is going to cost us a small fortune.
All this so Bohner can say.....see obie is doing something to protect the border, he has fulfilled his promise so we must pass amnesty/permantdemvotersforlife now.
Will they be 60 miles from the border in a brightly lit inspection station on the interstate? You know, the one every illegal goes through.
Sadly... you’re right.
Trying to one up Perry....and no other reason.
This will accomplish nothing other than the protection for the intruders at our border. This admin has not done one thing in the protection of American citizens.
Break the country into “Administrative Regions” or some such bureaucratese. Place the head of the region in charge of first responders and then infrastructure “to create efficiency and improve order”.
They can call each region a Soviet Socialist Republic....err, I mean a Security and Service Region. Yeah, that’ll work.
Doesn’t matter. Pay up, citizen. You exist to fund government. /s
Well, then we’re safe. They’ll never perfect protection of the border.
It’s a chain-of-command effort. I don’t know that it will result in increased physical presence at or near the border. Good question.
sounds great but ya you know what this REALLY is..?
really is it’s a centre from which the government can repress any citizen efforts to regulate or secure the border.
This new headquarters will have nothing to do at all with impeding invasion of the homeland from foreigners.
This is a very simple, easy trick
This is just funny. All this does is to recreate the regional offices that were abolished with the creation of DHS.
So now rather than field commanders taking their direction directly from DC there will be a political hack, appointed by the president with no operational experience, likely from the ACLU or LULAC to secure the border.
Of course they will require a full office staff including a range of departments like LMR, HR, tech staff and 100 support personal.
But what about the unsecured northern border? They will need a new regional office as well and perhaps the coastal states as well.
None of this will do a damn thing to secure the border. It just adds another layer of management and breaks the chain of command between the field and DC. Take for example the Border Patrol, currently the field commanders answer directly to the commander of the Border Patrol in DC who answers to the Director of Customs and Border Protection who answers to the Secretary of DHS.
Now the field commanders will be taking direction and answering to an appointed SES (probably a bundler) The commander of the Border Patrol in DC becomes a joke with no authority or power to shape strategy or effect events on the ground.
This is such a stupid idea I am surprised it took the administration this long to come up with it.
You know nothing about this would be bothersome EXCEPT the government’s stated position is to not deport people and to allow an open border. Oh, and protect those who act against the standards of the founding fathers. The only one who should fear this development are law abiding constitutionally aware citizens. These are, by the way, the target for SOUTHCOM.
One SOUTHCOM’s enough, thanks...
Why not station ICE agents AT the border instead of 20 to 50 miles inland?
And give them orders to STOP illegals BEFORE they touch US soil?
Of course the ABA VULTURES Immigration Lawyers would oppose such an idea and tie it up in court for 5 or 10 years.
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