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    Richardson declares border emergency to free up funds

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    1:52 pm: Richardson declares border emergency to free up funds
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    By ASSOCIATED PRESS
    August 12, 2005

    COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) - Gov. Bill Richardson on Friday declared an emergency in four New Mexico counties along the border, an action that lets him free up money to be spent on everything from fighting drug smuggling to fencing a livestock yard.

    The executive order, issued after Richardson toured the area around Columbus, makes $750,000 immediately available to Dona Ana, Luna, Grant and Hidalgo counties. He pledged an additional $1 million.

    The money will aid state and area law enforcement efforts, fund a field office for the state Office of Homeland Security and help build a fence to protect a Columbus-area livestock yard where a number of cattle have been killed or stolen.

    Richardson's declaration said law enforcement officials have used all available resources to help with border security. But those efforts haven't alleviated the situation, which he said "constitutes an emergency condition with potentially catastrophic consequences."

    "Recent developments have convinced me this action is necessary _ including violence directed at law enforcement, damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling and an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants," he said.

    He also ordered the New Mexico Department of Agriculture to work with the state Livestock Board to assess the safety of livestock in the region.

    The funds include nearly $50,000 for an 11-foot, razor wire-topped security fence around the stockyards. It will replace a shorter, barbed-wire fence that Richardson said "is so full of holes and gaps that trucks and people can cross with no control."

    The new fence will help prevent cattle from Mexico straying across the border, officials said.

    "We don't want contagious diseases to contaminate our food supply and disrupt our agricultural economy," Richardson said in a statement before his trip.

    Daniel Manzanares, executive director of the Livestock Board, said at least 100 cattle from Mexico have been found in the area. The agency hasn't traced any outbreaks of disease to Mexican cattle, but Manzanares said he suspects some have carried bovine tuberculosis into New Mexico.

    The current state of the stockyard fence means people have been able to illegally enter the country as well.

    "We definitely have concerns about biosecurity and agroterrorism," said Tim Manning, New Mexico's homeland security adviser.
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    Oops

    Sorry did not see the earlier post. Very tired!
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    He must be up for re-election but it's good the story is getting attention in the national news.

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    Re: Richardson declares border emergency to free up funds

    Richardson's declaration said law enforcement officials have used all available resources to help with border security. But those efforts haven't alleviated the situation, which he said "constitutes an emergency condition with potentially catastrophic consequences."
    Good that he recognizes this and is doing something about it.

    National Guard Troops should be called up by all the states to stop this nonsense now nationwide.

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    Richardson's declaration said law enforcement officials have used all available resources to help with border security.
    Part of the reason local law enforcement doesn't round up illegals is they have no room to put them. I worked for a while at the Wake County NC Jail. This is a fairly new facility that was designed to hold 96 people per floor. The Wake Co. Jail also held people on federal charges which would take into account illegal aliens. There were routinely 10-20 inmates per floor that slept on mats because of a lack of cell space and that is just the regular criminals and the ones on federal charges. To round up a couple of hundred illegal immigrants would overwhelm the jail space. Plus put the Detention Officers at a greater risk of harm.

    Sure a field could be fenced off and tents put up but on who's land would that go on and that would be way outside of most Sheriff's budget.

    So, Judy, I agree. There needs to be more federal involvement.

    Unless NASA had developed teleportation devices, we need to have a place to house and feed the illegals for at least a few days until transportation can be set up to deport them.

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    Right!!

    The reason they have to be detained so long now is they are only deporting a few so they make them wait for full buses or planes.

    When things get busy, the planes can be loaded full to the brim every 40 minutes...but depending on the destination, there will need to be a brief time of detention and campgrounds should work perfectly well.

    Everyone has to remember that WE didn't cause this; and while this process is going to be very hard and very difficult; WE have to get it done with the least cost possible while still ensuring humane conditions.

    I've never been to a campground that I considered inhumane.

    And for the brief time they will be detained, this is perfectly satisfactory.

    We have federal land, we have eminent domain to take ranches belonging to public officials, so we have TWO ALREADY and they are quite large.

    We can also rent space and charge it to the aliens. I'm sure ranchers throughout the southwest would allow a lease of their land for temporary detention campgrounds.

    Once the borders are sealed, the flow stopped, then it's just a matter of deportations.

    Bu Bye!!

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    Judy,

    You are in a roll!!!

    Let's build some camp sites!!

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    Yes Sir....this deportation is not a big thing. It just take some land, some tents, some water, some rations, and start the movement!!

    AND, really, when this starts, many will pack up and leave voluntarily because they will want to take all their stuff with them.

    If they are caught and deported they will leave with nothing!!

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