Thread: Chertoff Vows to Ratchet Up Immigration Enforcement

Originally Posted by CCUSA

I'm distrustful but hoping they are going to truly do something because their backs are against the wall to prove their doing their jobs.

Not to be disagreeable - but I don't think their backs are against the wall. They have almost all the cards in this game. This is just a plan to pretend they are doing something.

They are buying time to get something in place. Not sure what it is - but it is something. Time is something we don't have.

Has anyone seen the owners or CEO's of the big corporations being fingerprinted and walking around in orange jumpsuits? Until we see that, nothing - nothing is being done.

Isn't this something. The law-abiding citizen has to have Federal licenses but the illegals don't have to comply with any thing nor do the employers. That's always the case whether is gun control or anything like it. Bah Humbug.

Chernoff's says"


"This is not a mandate. A state doesn't have to do this," he said. "But we've been very clear and the law is very clear, if the state doesn't have at the end of the day, the end of the deadline, Real ID compliant licenses, then that state cannot expect that those licenses will be accepted for federal purposes."

Of course he won't get the fence built, even though HS has known about the Terrorists using the Drug Cartels to enter the US by the southern border. See the article posted today "Terrorists Using Drug Cartels" (Washington Post article). They've known this for a couple of years. Ed Royce was my past Congressman. He is a really good guy.

Here's Chertoff's idea of "racheting up enforcement"!

Guard troops pulled from border
By Jerry Seper
August 9, 2007




Sgt. Tony Briscoe of the Texas National Guard last week repaired a portion of the fence on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas. The number of troops on the border is expected to be halved by Sept. 1 to 3,000, prompting complaints from Arizona and New Mexico officials.

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National Guard troops assigned to help increase security along the U.S.-Mexico border are being pulled off the line a year earlier than promised, and some state and federal officials are not happy about it.



"The drawdown of Operation Jump Start's strength level is ill-timed and should be halted and re-examined," Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano wrote in a letter last week to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.



"Arizona remains a problematic border in the Southwest region, and the long-planned drawdown in personnel and patrol is premature," she said.



Miss Napolitano said President Bush's deployment of the Guard troops in her state had "made real progress" in cutting the number of people sneaking illegally into the country, and noted that the Border Patrol is not yet up to the manpower totals promised by the presidentially mandated program.



The reductions, which began July 1 and will be completed by Sept. 1, will result in a cut of Guard troops in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas from 6,000 to 3,000 — half of that promised by Mr. Bush in 2006.



In Arizona, the nation's most popular alien- and drug-smuggling corridor, the number of troops will be cut from 2,400 to 1,200.



Mr. Bush ordered the National Guard troops' deployment while the Border Patrol recruited, hired, trained and assigned 6,000 new agents, a recruitment goal the agency expected to reach by the end of 2008.



The White House did not return a call yesterday for comment, but officials at Homeland Security told reporters the Guard troops being withdrawn have been assigned to administrative support or maintenance work and are being replaced.

"I reject the assertion that the gradual phaseout of the National Guard is going to have a corresponding impact on criminal activity at the border," said spokesman Russ Knocke. "We have more Border Patrol agents than when we started Operation Jump Start, more vehicle barriers, more personnel."


Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation also have asked Mr. Bush not to cut the number of National Guard troops stationed along that state's border with Mexico.


"If we prematurely reduce the number of Guard personnel, it will be difficult to maintain recent achievements," Sen. Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico Democrat, said in a letter to Mr. Bush, noting that the number of illegal aliens apprehended at the New Mexico border had declined since 700 Guard troops were deployed.


"Although we are moving in the right direction, I do not believe there are enough Border Patrol agents on the ground in New Mexico yet to justify a reduction of National Guard personnel by over 50 percent," he said.


Last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the number of illegal aliens caught trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border dropped by 24 percent. CBP credited increased border-security efforts for the decline, including the addition of new agents and added technology, combined with the deployment of the National Guard troops.


From Oct. 1 through June 30, Border Patrol agents apprehended 682,468 illegal aliens, compared with 894,496 during the same period last year.


While arrests declined, at the same time the amount of drugs seized on the border increased, with Border Patrol agents seizing more than 1.47 million pounds of marijuana (a 27 percent increase) and 9,514 pounds of cocaine (a 22 percent increase).


CBP spokesman Mike Friel, in announcing the decline in apprehensions, said the agency continued to enhance border security through a "comprehensive approach of implementing innovative programs," including an expansion of Operation Jump Start.


Operation Jump Start was designed to free up Border Patrol agents for expanded protection along the 1,951-mile Southwest border. The National Guard troops were assigned to build additional roads and fences, add cameras and sensors, conduct aerial reconnaissance and provide medical aid and communications support.


They also performed administrative duties, gathered intelligence from border cameras for agents to act upon, assisted at highway checkpoints and served on entry-identification teams.


Bob Wright, former Minuteman Civil Defense Corps organizer who helped create a new border vigil organization, the Patriots' Border Alliance, called the decision to pull the National Guard troops "another broken promise by this government."


"The commitment was for two years," Mr. Wright said. "The little bit of effort they put into it worked. It was certainly a start to have our border protected. Just their presence is a deterrent. Pulling them out is irresponsible."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbc ... 90083/1001

Chertoff's idea of getting "tough" is arresting 10 people instead of the last big raid when he arrested 6 people




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I think the this whole thing is going to back fire on Chertoff, Gonzales and Bush. My plan Monday morning is to call ICE and let them know that McDonalds, Burger King, Home Depot, Lowes and Walmart all have illegals working for them. I think that America is going to be watching.

I also think that we here at Alipac need to start disecting these big corporations one by one like McDonalds for instance and find our how much they are paying politicans, if they belong to Laraza, how much there CEO's are making and what they are saving to hire the illegal. Also McDonalds for instance had jobs available for high school age children. Not anymore. They are all hispanics and at the window they speak a lttle better english.

I don't think there is anyway we can follow the money trail on this. They know how to hide it too well.

It is OUR money that matters. If we give it to the businesses, it will wind up working against us.