Thread: Babeu: Border is full of holes

Babeu: Border is full of holes

Posted: Saturday, January 29, 2011 11:58 pm | Updated: 12:00 am, Sun Jan 30, 2011.

By Marissa Freireich


Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu denied assertions that the border situation is improving, saying it is in fact getting worse in a speech Friday to the Republican Club of Green Valley-Sahuarita.

About 100 people attended the meeting at Friends In Deed. Babeu, 41, received a standing ovation when he was introduced as the newly named 2011 Sheriff of the Year by the National Sheriffs' Association.

Then he quickly got down to business, telling the audience that more than half of all illegal immigrants entering the United States come via Arizona.

"All roads lead to Pinal County," Babeu said, quoting the Border Patrol. He compared the counties in southern Arizona to a funnel that directs illegal immigrants to pass through Pinal County, which covers much of the area between Tucson and Phoenix.

Babeu criticized Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano's statements that the border is more secure than ever.

"Things aren't getting better, they're getting worse," he said.

Babeu has raised his profile on border issues in the past year, appearing regularly on national news programs and being openly critical of federal policies that have affected his fast-growing county.

He cited data that showed marijuana seizures in Pinal County had more than doubled in the past few years, from 19,619 pounds in 2008, to 45,500 pounds last year. Vehicle pursuits doubled from 142 in 2007 to 340 last year. Calls to the Border Patrol also doubled from 169 in 2008 to 370 last year.

"I'm sharing all these figures to tell you at a time when the person who's charged with our national security to defend our homeland is saying everything's just fine, I'm showing you everything is not just fine," he said.

Babeu said illegal immigration must be addressed through Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl's 10-point border security plan. He emphasized three points: deploying 6,000 armed soldiers to the border, building a double barrier fence along parts of the border, and streamlining border policies, such as ending opportunities for voluntary return.

"You're going to see the heaviest enforcement I can bring to bear because the federal government won't do the job," he said.

"This is within our ability to secure this border."

Babeu received another standing ovation at the end of his speech.

"We need a sheriff like Sheriff Paul," said Wally Watson, who attended the talk. "We're gonna have to get tough or we're gonna get run over," he said.

Grace Neil agreed.

"I'm impressed that he is really dedicated to what he believes in, and I believe in it, too," she said.

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Babeu for President?

Originally Posted by fatfenders

Babeu for President?

I second that nomination! How about instead of a useless VP we have Arpaio/ Babbeu as co-Presidents? Then we could be assured our existing laws are enforced...LOL!

Originally Posted by fatfenders

Babeu for President?

Jeff Sessions / Paul Babeu

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CHECK THIS ARTICLE OUT I READ ON WND

Forget federal government, we'll build fence ourselves!

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INVASION USA
Forget federal government, we'll build fence ourselves!
Plan makes illegal immigrants pay for states to secure U.S. border
Posted: January 30, 2011
5:20 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
Mississippi State Sen. Joey Fillingane
A Mississippi legislator has caught on to an idea that if the federal government won't complete a border fence separating the United States from Mexico, the states will – and he's planning on taxing illegal immigrants to fund it.
Republican State Sen. Joey Fillingane has filed S.B. 2255, which would charge a fee on all money transfers wired out of the United States, then count the amount as a credit on Mississippi citizens' tax returns. The result: Only illegal immigrants sending money abroad would ultimately pay the fees, since they cannot file tax returns to receive a refund.
The net revenue from the non-refunded fees, S.B. 2255 specifies, would then be sent to states like Arizona and Texas for construction of a border fence.
Get the facts on the threat to America coming across its own borders, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security"
"It's a very novel idea and certainly a departure from the thinking that the border is the federal government's responsibility," Fillingane told southern Mississippi's SunHerald. "I think this is the kind of idea, if it takes root, it takes time to educate people on it and then let them marinate on the idea. Just because we have never done something before, certainly doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't."
Fillingane admits the idea wasn't even his originally, but was presented to him through a tea-party group called the Mississippi Patriots.
A video explaining the bill, produced by the Mississippi Patriots and including a radio interview with Fillingane, can be seen below:
Mississippi to Build the Border Fence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTsYJqU9nRE

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Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, has criticized the bill as harassment of Latinos, who often wire money to relatives back home.

"Many of the legislators, mainly some of the white legislators, are pandering to their perceptions of how their constituents feel about people of color," Chandler told the SunHerald. "At one time they were overtly pandering to racism against African-Americans, but now that is muted. The fact that there are Latinos in Mississippi, and they are vulnerable, they are now targets."

But Fillingane rejects the notion that his bill is a racist attack on Latinos.

"It doesn't target Indians, it doesn't target Hispanics even; it targets people who are here in the country illegally, be they from Hispanic-speaking countries or English-speaking countries or Chinese-speaking countries, it doesn't matter," Fillingane said. "The bill is designed to go after people breaking the law by being in the country without the proper documentation."

In 2009, Oklahoma imposed a similar system of tax-deductible fees on wire transfers – though it didn't submit banks and Internet companies like Paypal to the same charges, as Fillingane's plan does – in order to support the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics fund. According to the Oklahoma City Journal Record, the fees had generated more than $3.7 million for the state in the system's first year.

Sending vast amounts of money back home

Statistics from the Inter-American Development Bank, reported in the Wall Street Journal, show that migrant workers in the U.S. sent over $69 billion worth of wire transfers, or "remittances," to relatives overseas in 2008, with over $25 billion sent to recipients in Mexico alone.

Workers in California rack up the most remittances, shipping more than $14 billion of cash earned in the state over the border each year.

The Journal also reports that some 1.35 million Guatemalan citizens – 10 percent of the population – live in the U.S., supporting 3.5 million people back home through remittances, which are now the top foreign-exchange earner for the Central American nation, ahead of coffee, sugar and other leading exports.

The Mississippi Patriots report that remittances from their state total about $99 million annually, while Mississippi spends an additional $106 million on public education, emergency medical care and incarceration of illegal aliens.

Now the organization is hoping to persuade legislators from other states to join Fillingane in filing bills similar to S.B. 2255.

"This unprecedented step will get the border fence built by the states after more than 24 years of waiting for Washington, D.C., to make good on the 1986 amnesty act that they passed into law," said Mississippi Patriots spokesman Marvin Cox in a statement. "If only half the states participate, we could raise $1.2 billion annually for the fence with an average remittance fee of 5 percent."

The Mississippi Patriots tell WND they expect the State Senate's Judiciary Committee to vote on the bill early this week.

Just in from Obama and Nappy.

They admit the border still have a few small holes left. In further comments they said they will follow up with the border patrol in the area to make sure they stop securing those holes. Obama and Nappy both agree such will fix the hole's on the border as logically there can't be a hole if there is nothing remaining to put a hole into!

In 2009, Oklahoma imposed a similar system of tax-deductible fees on wire transfers – though it didn't submit banks and Internet companies like Paypal to the same charges, as Fillingane's plan does – in order to support the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics fund. According to the Oklahoma City Journal Record, the fees had generated more than $3.7 million for the state in the system's first year.

Being from Oklahoma makes me proud but we still have a long way to go.

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