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    Where's the Fence? DHS Delayed Construction - Is It Too Late

    Where's the Fence? DHS Delayed Construction - Is It Too Late?
    May 15, 2009
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    Watch this excellent short video documenting the American Border Patrol's Operation B.E.E.F. (Border Enforcement Evaluation First). This program was launched on the morning of May 17, 2007.

    The objective was to monitor the implementation of the double-layered fencing that was mandated to be built by the Secure Fence Act of 2006. American Border Patrol reported that the Department of Homeland Security had built only two miles of double-layered fencing since the signing of the Act the previous October. The Act required the construction of at least 700 miles of double layered fencing.
    Watch this excellent short video documenting this travesty:

    Later that same day, Rep. Ed Royce (R-Ca) appeared on the Lou Dobbs Show. He said, "Look how serious our federal government is about this, we passed a bill for 850 miles of new fencing and we have two miles, two miles completed."



    American Border Patrol purchased the airplane and equipped it with state of the art video equipment to record their aerial surveys of the border and report on the fence progress. Apparently Rep. Royce (R-CA) relied on the American Border Patrol's Operation B.E.E.F. for his information regarding the fencing which had actually been completed. It was certain that no one in the government was going to admit to this incredible bad faith excercise.

    American Border Patrol has undertaken an important excercise in accountability, a series of reports on the truth of the DHS, and the government upholding the laws of the land. In the first part of the series called "Blackout: The Border Cover-Up", American Border Ppatrol released a video that shows how Operation B.E.E.F. influenced the debate over illegal immigration. Part I, called "The Two-Mile Miracle," shows how activists and politicians used the results of Operation B.E.E.F. to: 1) alert voters to the failure of the government to build the border fence; and 2) defeat the amnesty bill of 2007.
    Part II of the series, "Where's The Fence", This is NOT a fence

    Did the Department of Homeland Security mislead the public? Did it make them think that they had built more than 500 miles of border fence when they really hadn't?



    This most recent video produced by American Border Patrol "This is not a fence," suggests just that. According to American Border Patrol, DHS actually built only 200 miles of fence, not 527 miles as it claimed at the end of 2008, and even that didn't meet the standard set in the original Secure Fence Act of 2006.
    The video is based on aerial surveys of the border performed as part of Operation B.E.E.F., American Border Patrol's watchdog project, and shows how DHS included vehicle barriers in its public pronouncements of fence progress. "I don't think the public is aware of just how useless DHS's so-called vehicle fences really are," said Glenn Spencer, head of American Border Patrol and pilot of the aerial survey airplane. ABP shows how smugglers use portable ramps to drive over vehicle barriers and even old ten-foot mat fencing.

    This country cannot afford another "amnesty" program. America has over 13 million Americans unemployed. There are over 7 million illegal aliens who work in this country and are not in the agricultural industry. Returning just those jobs to Americans would cut the unemployment in half. These are jobs that Americans would do, they are in construction, maintenance and the service industries. We need to insist the DHS (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) do their job, enforce our laws and stop the tide of illegal aliens flooding across our borders.

    "We call things racism just to get attention. We reduce complicated problems to racism, not because it is racism, but because it works." --- Alfredo Gutierrez, political consultant, as quoted by Richard de Uriarte, The Phoenix Gazette, March 14, 1992 (quoted in The ProEnglish Advocate, 1st quarter, 2002).

    We are told "Illegal aliens take jobs Americans won't do."
    Fact is: Americans are willing to do most jobs at a fair wage, but they won't do those jobs at "slave wages" or minimum wage. Thus, American workers are constantly replaced by illegal aliens willing to work for half or a third of what American workers once received. These jobs that once afforded a middle class life style now only offer illegal alien workers poverty level wages, resulting in the shrinkage of the "American Middle Class" and the enormous growth of an ever-increasing "underclass" dependent on government entitlements. E-Verify is the program making it possible for employers to make sure they only hire citizens. It works, it needs to be mandatory.

    We are told "Illegal aliens contribute more to the economy and tax base than they take."
    Fact is: A large portion of illegal aliens work for cash "under the table" paying no taxes. The great majority of illegals make $6-$8 per hour, ($12,480 - $16,640 per year). At such income levels, not only is there no tax due, but they also qualify for the "earned income tax credit". In California, public education alone costs over $7,500 per pupil. Multiply that times 2-4 children, add the costs of free school breakfast and lunch, free medical care, food stamps, housing subsidies, and other entitlement "give-aways". Harvard Professor George Borjas estimates illegal immigration costs the U.S. 70 billion dollars per year and Californians $1,300 per household annually in additional taxes. The Center for Immigration Studies estimate that the average Mexican illegal alien will use $55,200 more in public services during his lifetime than he pays in taxes.

    We are told: "Without illegal alien farm labor, a head of lettuce would cost $3.00."
    Fact is: It already costs $3.00. You just make a $1.00 down payment at the grocery store. The government finances the other two dollars until tax time, when the additional $2.00 balance is extracted from your wallet in the form of higher taxes. The Agriculture industry gets cheap labor and higher profits, while shifting all the social costs of illegal immigrant labor to the American tax payer.

    We are told: "Most illegal aliens come here only to seek work and are law-abiding "citizens"."
    Fact is: In Los Angeles, as of January, 2004, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) are for illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens. A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico. (Source: The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave, by Heather MacDonald, City Journal, Winter 2004)


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    Our Law Enforcement and BP are excellent!

    One of the challenges to law enforcement is that they know that Obama and his administration will find a way to punish them for enforcing the law.
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    Judge Throws Out Lawsuit to Halt Construction of Border Fence

    But U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday that the coalition did not have standing to sue since its members were not the affected property owners.

    AP
    Friday, May 15, 2009

    WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit to stop construction of the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration.

    The Texas Border Coalition, a coalition of mayors and business and community leaders, sued the Homeland Security Department last year. The group said the department did not fairly negotiate compensation with landowners for access to their land for six-month surveys to choose fence sites.

    The Bush administration pledged to build 667 miles of fencing and other barriers along the border to help keep out illegal immigrants. The job is nearly complete.

    But U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday that the coalition did not have standing to sue since its members were not the affected property owners.

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