Thread: Chertoff urges safer Mexican border

Chertoff urges safer Mexican border
JULIE WATSON
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that immigration reform would let U.S. law enforcement focus on catching criminals instead of migrants seeking better economic prospects.

But he said Americans were unlikely to back any such reform until added security along the Mexican border convinces them they're safe.

In his first official visit to Mexico, Chertoff told foreign reporters that Mexico was not a "hotbed" of terrorism but "we are always vigilant for people who might be passing into Mexico who are potentially linked to terrorists."
The 6,000 National Guard troops providing logistical support to the Border Patrol since May have dramatically deterred people from crossing the 2,000-mile frontier, he said. Arrests along the border are down, and fewer people have been seen gathering to cross on the Mexican side.

But security alone won't permanently stop illegal border crossers, and Chertoff warned that flows increase as smugglers regroup.

Comprehensive immigration reform, he said, would allow U.S. law enforcement to "focus more on the people that we don't want in the country under any circumstances, namely the criminals and the dangerous folks."

"Every time a Border Patrol officer is transporting a load of future housekeepers and landscapers to someplace to be returned, he's not looking for drug dealers or drug loads," Chertoff said.

Mexico has been pushing for years for a U.S. immigration accord. President Bush has proposed a guest-worker program that would allow Mexicans living abroad to seek temporary work visas, but Congress has refused to back it.

U.S. lawmakers instead have supported building more border walls and beefing up security.

But Chertoff noted that border officials say it may not be necessary to build all 700 miles of border fences proposed in legislation Bush signed into law last year.

Instead, border enforcement authorities would like the flexibility to build walls where needed, while other areas may be better monitored by ground sensors and other technology.

Next week, Chertoff plans to visit the Arizona border to see the first 28 miles of ground sensors being installed as part of a border-wide strategy.

Chertoff said the Guard troops will be phased out when the Border Patrol reaches its goal of hiring 18,319 agents, which the agency is on target to do by the end of 2008.

Chertoff commended Calderon for extraditing to the U.S. four Mexican drug lords in January and leading a federal effort to retake smuggling strongholds from drug traffickers. Previous arrests of key drug leaders have led to bloody turf battles in which drug gangs behead their enemies and openly defy authorities.

Chertoff said he discussed with Mexico's top security officials how to better coordinate efforts to combat border violence and exchange information about traffickers of drugs and people. They also discussed ways to stem the tide of illegal migrants from Central and South America who travel north through Mexico.

Chertoff also said the U.S. and Mexico were working together to protect their energy infrastructure after an Internet threat by a Saudi Arabian terrorist faction affiliated with al-Qaida. The faction urged attacks against oil installations in countries that export petroleum to the U.S. - namely Mexico, Canada and Venezuela.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said in its monthly online magazine that "cutting oil supplies to the United States, or at least curtailing it, would contribute to the ending of the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan." The group said it was making the statements as part of Osama bin Laden's declared policy.


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"Every time a Border Patrol officer is transporting a load of future housekeepers and landscapers to someplace to be returned, he's not looking for drug dealers or drug loads," Chertoff said.

So I suppose Chertoff has some magic psychic ability to know which of these so-called future housekeepers and landscapers will not become a future child molester, rapist or DUI driving killer. Almost every child molester and DUI killing illegal alien came here for a better life.

How many thousands of innocent American children and women have to be molested and raped by these future housekeepers and landscapers before he secures the border? How many innocent Americans need to be killed and maimed at the hands of multiple offending DUI driving illegals before he wakes up? This idiotic, gutless, spineless Bush cronie always seems to stick up for lawbreaking illegals and betrays the very people he is supposed to be serving, the American public.

How dare this clown go to a foreign country like Mexico and spew his pro-illegal propaganda, all the while allowing masses of illegals to come into the country creating swaths of death and criminal mayhem wherever they go.

His a traitor! Out with all NAU conspirators!

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would allow U.S. law enforcement to "focus more on the people that we don't want in the country under any circumstances

This damned idiot doesn't seem to realize we don't want anybody in this country who can't come here legally.

"Every time a Border Patrol officer is transporting a load of future housekeepers and landscapers to someplace to be returned, he's not looking for drug dealers or drug loads," Chertoff said.

So it's ok with jerkoff for the child molesters, rapists, murderers, drunk drivers to sneak across the border as long as they're not carrying drugs I guess.

But Chertoff noted that border officials say it may not be necessary to build all 700 miles of border fences proposed in legislation Bush signed into law last year.

We need the whole 2,000 mile border wall with this idiot on the other side.

Chertoff commended Calderon for extraditing to the U.S. four Mexican drug lords in January

I still fail to understand why these drug lords are in OUR prisons, on OUR dime when they're MEXICAN citizens.


The face of evil.


Too late.

Chertoff means DEVIL in Russian.

Originally Posted by CCUSA

Chertoff mean DEVIL in Russian.

I don't doubt that one bit.

Chertoff mean DEVIL in Russian.

Gee, that sounds like the perfect caption for a 100 foot-long banner stretched along Wall Street!