Posted on 03/24/2019 3:52:30 PM PDT by SanchoP
The El Paso Border Patrol sector has temporarily closed its system of highway checkpoints as it struggles to cope with a record influx of families crossing the border and requesting asylum. The agents who usually staff the checkpoints will be redeployed to process and transport the asylum seekers, according to multiple sources who spoke to Texas Monthly on the condition they not be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly about the change.
“We were told to go ahead and close down all the checkpoints,” one official said Saturday morning. Agents assigned to checkpoints were told they would be sent indefinitely to assist in efforts to process and transport hundreds of families and unaccompanied children crossing the border each day in El Paso, a surge that is overwhelming available resources. “It’s really out of control. It’s bad,” the official said. A Border Patrol spokesman said the agency was preparing a statement on the checkpoint issue but as of Saturday evening the agency hadn’t responded to Texas Monthly inquiries.
At a checkpoint on U.S. Highway 62/180 about 30 miles east of El Paso in Hudspeth County, orange cones that usually are used to funnel motorists off the highway and into the checkpoint had been repositioned Saturday evening to block the entrance to the checkpoint. The situation was repeated at several other checkpoints on major roadways in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico, officials said. It wasn’t clear Saturday if checkpoints in other Border Patrol sectors across the Southwest were impacted by efforts to redeploy resources to deal directly with arriving migrants.
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Laredo's down too.
At this point, what good is processing them at all do? We are just the welcome wagon and then release them with a promise to appear beyond the ides of never.
Use troops, FBI, Federal Marshals, etc. to CLOSE THE BORDER. Staff those checkpoints!!! Incredible, it is like keystone cops welcoming and watching everyone stream by. Might as well get Cruz and Beck to go back down and pass out teddy bears.
Well this certainly throws a little cold water on the celebration today :(
Closing interior check points? That is BS. Should be closing the POE with Mexico. All of them.
“If President Trump does not CLOSE THE BORDER NOW!! it’s over for the US as a sovereign nation.”
I don’t know what the hell is going on but it’s not good. Millions of illegal democrat voters are streaming in every couple of months.
And we have IDIOTS like kirstjen nielson saying that congress has to change the asylum laws. Using words like ‘our broken immigration system’ when talking about invading foreign nationals. The b!tch needs to be gone.
Move on. No crisis to see here...
Round them up. Put them on busses headed to DC. Drop them off in front of the Capital Building and tell them go inside and demand to be put on welfare.
I blame Ann Coulter
Instigate operating “ Catapult “.
Today’s so called democrats insist Americans must allow illegals storm in here by the hundreds of thousands despite their cost to us of billion$ in tax dollars,which is never enough. Tax money that should be going to our citizens for their sustenance,health,education,and housing even infrastructure needs. But Americans must do the tax flagellating punishment because we’re the very rich United States and must divert those billion$ to fill the needs of those poor illegals plus give them the right to vote. Sustained by our tax money which our children’s children if not aborted will be paying for.
CLOSING THE BORDER WOULD BE A TEMPORARY FIX
THIS WOULD MAKE IT FULL TIME
WHY ARE WE ALLOWING CITIZENS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
WHO ENTER US ILLEGALLY GRANT THEM RIGHTS
THAT THEIR COUNTRY DENY US HAVING
WHEN WE ENTER THEIRS LEGALLY TO VISIT OR RETIRE ???
It’s time we consider illegal entry by any person who is a non Mexican citizen illegally entering the United States through the US Mexican border a defacto Mexican citizen with limited Mexican constitutional rights subject to their laws while transiting. As well as any Mexican citizen entering illegally exempting those who do so legally and meet US citizenship requirements. All subject to reciprocal citizen treatment a citizen of the United States receives in Mexico through the Mexican constitution on citizenship .
Besides being unable to vote one must also be a citizen to own land and Mexico is very restrictive about granting citizenship. Because of that a US citizen besides not being able to vote,and cannot have title in their name to any land property in Mexico. And until that is changed the US and the affected state should consider making that reciprocal. Prohibiting any illegal entrant employment, voting, and land ownership privileges fully enforced ..
In other words Sneak into this country before expulsion no job no voting no landowning
I went through one of those checkpoints last month. They asked if I was a US citizen.
If they (Border Patrol) aren’t packing them (illegal scum) into 50-ft trailers and trucking them half-way to mexico city, it’s NBD...
These inland, “Papers Please!” Checkpoints seem designed to harass Americans.
And all they had to do was violate the freedom of US citizens, going about their daily activities, stopping them without probable cause...
The check points near San Diego have been closed for over 2 years.
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