Posted on 05/09/2006 6:21:25 AM PDT by IrishMike
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are. According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants -- and if and when violence is used against border crossers.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed.
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.
"This ... simply makes two basic statements -- that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."
Minuteman members were not so sanguine about the arrangement, however, saying that reporting their location to Mexican officials nullifies their effectiveness along the border and could endanger their lives.
"Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time," said Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels.
"They just basically endangered the lives of American people."
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Excellent post joanie-f...
You have the current issues in your cross hairs. Don't listen to the trolls, quackers, and hackers out there. The FR has a few misguided cyber drive by shooters that will try to distract you.
I wish there were more FReepers like yourself!
God Bless the Minutemen!
You wrote a super letter joanie!
Yeah, the rest of us are chopped liver.
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Hey man, I need to be on your ping list! ;^]
The FROBLs are de facto DUmmies.
Travis McGee, Stellar Dendrite and Serenissima Venezia bump!
Not on your life...
An Enchiladita is a special person. LOL, at least the one I know is. I know an Enchi that has been posting some pretty interesting info on this, and other threads!
Okay, I feel better now... at least I'm interesting. Heh heh.
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As a Patriot my patience is wearing thin. There is not a venue I know of where you say and speak your mind!
It appears that the allegiance of much of American leadership at the highest levels rests in something other than the sovereignty of our republic and the safety of her people. Whether that alternative allegiance lies in a belief that the importance of illegals to the (mirage) robust American economy supersedes any threat to our sovereignty that their criminality poses . or a belief that a world without borders is preferable to one in which each nations sovereignty is sacrosanct is unclear.
I figured this out awhile back after reading one of Tony Blankley's columns on the illegal invasion. The claim that they are good for our economy is hogwash. Cheap labor gives the economy a false appearance of health. It's smoke and mirrors. Substance apparently is not the object; numbers are.
Bobby Dylan said, "You're only a pawn in the game."
Thanks for the pings; Spiff's info on #77; everything. I am wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy behind (jury duty).
Order in the Court!!
No problemo.
No "habla" either. : )
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - omg, that is TOO funny!!! You folks with your faces and little people crack me up.
ROTFLOL. Slow BQ just finally figured your entire message.
I keep reading and hearing about Spiff's post #77. But... what thread is it on? No can find.
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OMG!
you MUST be tired! : )
I'll look...I bumped it. : )
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