Posted on 05/09/2006 12:40:29 PM PDT by NapkinUser
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Tom Tancredo (R-CO) decried a recently-disclosed U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) practice of tipping off the Mexican military to the location of Minutemen volunteers. According to a story in this morning’s Inland Daily Bulletin, CBP notifies the Mexican government of when and where the Minutemen are planning to monitor the border and if violence is used by the Minutemen against illegal aliens. There has not been one verified instance of Minutemen volunteers using violence against illegal aliens.
“The Mexican military doesn’t exactly have a ‘good government’ reputation. The Border Patrol has documented more than two hundred incursions into the U.S by the Mexican military, and Texas sheriffs even apprehended Mexican government vehicles that were used to ferry drug runners across the border. By tipping off Mexico’s military to the Minutemen’s location, the U.S. government is asking for trouble,” said Tancredo.
“Heavily-armed military officials stationed only yards from civilians are at least intimidating. I can only surmise that the Border Patrol bureaucrats’ spying is meant to have a chilling effect on the Minutemen’s recruitment of more volunteers,” said Tancredo.
“The Minutemen haven’t been accused of breaking the law. Quite the contrary—they have gone out of their way to aid law enforcement and ensure the safety of our border. The U.S. government has no grounds upon which to stifle the Minutemen’s constitutional right to organize,” Tancredo concluded. “I want to know the legal basis for CBP informing a foreign government of the activities of private citizens who are obeying the law.”
If this doesn't prove that lou dobbs is a leftist hack, nothing will Carolyn.
"and I can read enough Spanish that it pretty much validates what has been reported."
Can you post the relevant passages that you've gleaned off the site, so I can run it through babelfish translation?
Of course they were involved; CBP is run by DHS, all directives come form DHS.
~LOL~ I switched to Brit when she came on -- I have no interest in talking heads of her sort..
LOL! People said the same about Reagan.
Yikes!!!
Rhodes is as left as a person can be. She has called for violence against Bush.
Only on Lou Dobbs could this Angela-Davis-wannabe get a national voice.
Yikes!!!
Rhodes is as left as a person can be. She has called for violence against Bush.
Only on Lou Dobbs could this Angela-Davis-wannabe get a national voice.
I'd like to see you kool-aid drinking hyperbole types be deported too. I'm sick of some of the illegal alien brown-nosing ways going on.
LOL!
The notification process, described as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed.
What rights do they have? They're breaking the law for God's sake!!!!
But your hero lou dobbs called her(randi rhodes) one of America's most popular talk show hosts, while air america sinks.
Admit it lou dobbs is a leftist hack.
watched LOU, he also reported the spying on the Minutemen for the Mexican gov..Jim if you are reading..I cannot find support for your statements that the spying by our gov on American citizens is false..do you have any back up on what you claimed??
I understand all you say and I think all our laws should be enforced. No illegals, period. Those hiring them and paying them off the books should be arrested, convicted, and punished.
Other than that, let the market work.
We had a drop house in our nice neighborhood in Dallas. Same thing with strangers coming and going at all hours, some in taxis. They weren't illegals though and they didn't last long.
So you would agree that if this report is authentic then it is very damning to the administration?
I don't know why he has those people on -- maybe to appease CNN? He has been informative on the border issue, I do believe I read a year or so ago that he is a libertarian.
Not me, I only deal in rumor and innuendo.
Come on now. You're not gonna play word games are you. Congress passes the laws, the executive enforces them. The U.S. Attorney General reports to who? The U.S. borders are secured by who? The Commander-in-Chief is who?
Or because he is a leftist hack and you fall for him like some schmo who probably has wives in different towns.
Libertarians believe in open borders.
He's a Perot. He just hates Bush and it colors everything he does (except his orange hair).
He thinks conservation is the way out of the energy crisis.
Does that sound like a libertarian or a goofy-greenie-Democrat?
If is phony then a lot of conservative news outlets will lose a lot of credibility. On the other hand, if it is authentic then those that called it a phony report will lose a lot of credibility.
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