Thread: ABC NEWS The Real 24: IA's along the US Mex Border

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=4193271

Watch "World News with Charles Gibson" TONIGHT at 6:30 p.m. ET, for Bill Weir's full report.

How does an undocumented immigrant cross into the United States from Mexico? How does the U.S. Border Patrol police the long border? What happens, in a typical 24-hour period, along this fascinating, dangerous, and politically critical patch of land?

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As part of our series, "The Real 24: One Day in the Life," ABC's Bill Weir takes a closer look at all those questions — after he and an ABC News team spent a recent day and night on both sides of the frontier.

Over the course of 24 hours, Weir and his team visited border towns in Arizona and Mexico. They spoke with Mexican citizens planning to cross into the United States, and with many who had just been deported. They also spoke with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents, and residents in a small Arizona border town, to explore how the effects of immigration — both legal and illegal — are felt every hour of every day.

Watch these sneak previews of the full report, Monday, Jan. 28, 6:30 p.m. ET:

Click here to go on night duty with the U.S. Border Patrol.

Click here to take a chopper ride along the U.S. border.

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Are there links to the click here on your post. I would love to see it if there are.

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Are there links to the click here on your post. I would love to see it if there are.

You can click on the links within the Article.

I believe that we can stop illegals without a fence. The fence is fine with me, but some people are resisting it. Perhaps a way to go would be to enforce the laws and write new ones that will not be beneficial to employers of illegals. This is what I believe has to be done:
1. Any employer that hires illegals and knows it, needs to be fined for each
illegal in their business, home, etc.
2. Any employer that hires illegals and knows it, and is caught a second time,
needs to be fined triple the fine of the first offence, for each hire caught.
3. Any employer that hires illegals and knows it, and is caught a third time,
needs to have his business closed.
4. To be hired by anyone, a social security number is required, all U.S.
citizens have such a card. Green card holders may be also holding a
social security card, but with a number that would indicate a legal
immigrant or alien status.
5. All other immigrants would not be allowed to work in the US unless they
are legal.
6. Dry up all government funds to illegals--no SSI or no hospitalization,
etc., except in emergency-a matter of life and death.
7. Only illegals to be considered for legal status would be those coming
here to escape religious and political persecution such as those coming
from Cuba. They should go to the US authorities immediately to
receive legal immigrant status.
8. Those who need help to return to their home country could come for
that help.

By drying up jobs and money to the illegals, that impedes their ability to enjoy the American Dream. To extend the dream to these people, encourage them to return home and stand in line and apply for the green cards. They are not locked out, they just have to wait their turn!

Rose

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Story?id=4200447&page=4

One of the linked pages to the above story is this one. BE SURE TO WATCH THE VIDEO ON THE TOP RIGHT OF THE PAGE. The Nogales AZ Station: 1,000 illegals a day! 450 Tons of marijuana last year! This scum is what continually comes into our country.

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The chopper crew uses spotlights and night vision to assists the patrols on the ground. Between arrests, a flash of white appears in the darkness below. It is the border. No fence, just a stone marker. But Lubbe says a wall wouldn't make much difference anyway.

"If you put a fence up, they'll just use a stepladder or something on the south side to climb right over it."

Back on the ground, Border Patrol Officer Mike Scioli agrees. "We know a wall is not going to stop them. What we're looking at with a fence or a wall is we're looking to slow them down or deter them. If we get them on foot out [in rural areas], we got hours to days to catch them. Here we've only got seconds to minutes before they get into a house, or a business or even a vehicle."


It's 1 a.m. Scioli and partner Rich Barela are rolling through the streets of Nogales. They drive past the new section of wall, tightly spaced pillars of steel and concrete that provide a line of sight into the neighboring country. On the Arizona side this is a town of 60,000, but just over the wall are 400,000 Mexicans living below the poverty level.

A few moments later, the radio announces a group of 10 are about to cross through the scrub brush on the east side of town. They spend three hours hunting the darkness, guided all the while by agents scanning the terrain with night-vision cameras. But just as they close in, the group is nabbed by another patrol. They sit huddled in the dirt, men and women, among them the sick and young.

On the off chance any of them are criminals, they will be held in Tucson. Central Americans are flown back to their home countries. But more than 90 percent of the people captured in and around Nogales are fingerprinted, driven back to the port of entry and released.

"I'll see you tomorrow!" says one detainee as he walks back into Mexico and another day begins.

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Hi Rose

Welcome to Alipac.