Posted on 12/29/2001 12:17:22 AM PST by expose
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:37:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) -- Smuggling has always thrived along the U.S.-Mexico border, where money can buy passage for almost anything.
Now, as the United States beefs up security after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mexico's endemic lawlessness has raised concerns that terrorists could use the country's organized crime networks to stage future attacks against America.
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But yet our government refuses to close our borders and stop all Visa's for protection of it's citizens.
If there is any more American blood spilled by the way of terrorism in America, the President, the Senate, and the House have to take some responsibility
Yeah, the pragmatic approach would be to turn a blind eye to smuggling drugs and illegal aliens who come to grow fat and lazy [lazier] off the teet of the American welfare state.
If we just hold up our end of this bargain, I’m sure we can trust the Mexicans to do a stand up job stopping insane muslim terrorists from infiltrating our border.
I know I’ll sleep better knowing that Pablo is on the job. Who needs the INS?
In Texas, we have schools that don't teach English and they don't even teach in English. Then there was a town near the border last year that voted out all English speaking and declared Spanish the official language, whereas apparently no one in the U.S. has an English only official policy.
There's a lot of corruption over there but the one good thing is they don't have political correctness like here and I think I almost do sleep better knowing they are on the job. The Mexicans even closed the border one night after Sept 11 when they spotted 2 Arabs over on their side trying to come over where the illegals pass. That's the only time the border here did get closed, not once by our side. The government there even told people to be on the look-out for Middle Easterners and try to talk to them and find out things about them, find out what they're up to.
You are absoltely right B4 !!!!!!
That is the only thing that will work...
That is the only thing that is necessary...
You are correct.
Don't blame all of us, for the actions of a few. Every agency, organization or company has it's bad apples, there are but a few bad apples in the INS. The majority of us are just plain frustrated that management and Congress won't allow us to do our jobs.
Lets start at the lowest level:
In the Phoenix District, which covers both Arizona and Nevada, there is approximately 175 Immigration Inspectors and approximately 15 Supervisory Immigration Inspectors. Out of that 175 Immigration Inspectors, I would say that maybe 5% are corrupt (i.e. purposely allowing drugs or illegal aliens into the country), and out of the Supervisory Immigration Inspectors, maybe 1 is corrupt. It is very difficult to facilitate the passage of drugs or illegal aliens on the border. There are too many eyes watching form too many agencies.
As for Criminal Investigators and Border Patrol Agents, I would say that they are far less like to be corrupt, and allow the passage of drugs or illegal aliens.
Now the problem starts as you move up the chain of command, and in my opinion, this really has nothing to do with corruption as it does with personal attitudes and beliefs. This district is run by a women with zero law enforcement experience. She is a career service employee, and I emphasize the word SERVICE.She is granted wide powers by the Commissioner of INS and the Attorney General and reports to the Regional Director, who is also a career service employee. This woman has the legal authority to decide what investigations are conducted in her district, and what powers the Immigration Inspectors are allowed to use.
On top of her and other service personnel making law enforcement decisions, Congress enacts laws that include loop holes that a wooly mammoth could jump through. For every violation of an Immigration law, Congress has allowed the service to grant some type of relief or waiver, and the service personnel use these waiver, to let the aliens in, or to let them go, once the law enforcement officers catch them.
This is the major problem with INS, and one that is about to change. The new commissioner, has proposed a restructuring of INS, that will take the service personnel out of the law enforcement chain of command. This should allow the law enforcement officers to actually enforce more of the INS regulations, without the interference of the service personnel.
Why are U. S. Government Agencies Importing and Protecting Suspected Middle Eastern Terrorists
Let's get honest here. This professor is openly saying that "Americans" (read: "politicians in Washington") care about terrorism - but not about huge numbers of illegal aliens entering the U.S. to compete for jobs with Americans during a severe recession.
And let's get honest about this prof's dishonesty. He's saying - in so many words - that U.S. federal law only applies to Americans, but exempts aliens!
He's saying that America's tiny "hiring class" doesn't give a rat's ass about the rest of us.
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