Thread: Smuggling, drug-running, violence defines Mexican border

My friends comments which I posted here are right on! ENforce the laws we have NOW!!!!!!!


When you attend any of these area hearings being held - Please ask them why they aren't mandating enforcement of existing law right now. They can do that and still hold these hearings but we want the existing laws to be enforced right now including those affecting the hiring, harboring, transporting of ILLEGALS.

If they refuse to enforce existing laws NOW then there is no guarantee they will uphold any of the things they are promoting in this new bill either. We already have been thru the promises of 1986 - and now, 20 years later - those laws are still not being enforced.

Demand they begin immediate enforcement of all the immigration laws. Anything less should tell everyone that this proposed legislation and these hearings are just more political outhouse excrement - being fed to the gullible so that they will vote the traitors back in.


http://dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4016983


Smuggling, drug-running, violence defines Mexican border: testimony
Sara A. Carter, Staff Writer
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

SAN DIEGO - Narcotics syndicates operating along the southern border are a threat to the security of the United States, and not enough is being done to close the nation's borders to would-be terrorists, government witnesses told U.S. congressional leaders Wednesday.

Photo Gallery: Congressional border hearing in San Diego

Download PDF: Border hearing testimony from T.J. Bonner

The House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Non-proliferation held the first of several field hearings on border security and terrorism at the Imperial Beach Border Patrol Station in San Diego.

During testimony, law enforcement agents, researchers and federal officials said they lack the funding, manpower and technology to fully secure the nation's northern and southern borders.

"Drug cartels, smuggling rings and gangs operating on both the Mexico and U.S. sides are increasingly well-equipped and more brazen than ever before in attacking federal, state and local law enforcement officials," said subcommittee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Fullerton, at the opening of the hearing.

"Border Patrol agents are being assaulted in increasing numbers. Some border areas can be accurately described as war zones."

Outside the station, more than 100 people from both sides of the immigration debate stood on the street in protest. Immigrant-rights activists placed 4,000 crosses in a field alongside the road leading to the Border Patrol station, while border enforcement activists waved American flags and held signs asking asked congressional leaders to tighten the borders.

Each cross represented a migrant who died crossing the southern border, said Enrique Morones, president of Border Angels, a non-profit organization that advocates for illegal immigrants crossing into the United States.

"It's very sad that nobody is here speaking for the migrants," Morones said as he placed small white crosses into the ground. "The (lawmakers) don't have their side of the story. It's a terrible thing."

Inside the Border Patrol station, witness testimony focused on the relatively low prosecution rate of smugglers, weapons of mass destruction, and the "catch and release" program that allows illegal immigrants -- including those from nations of special interest -- to be released into the nation on their own recognizance, with a notice to appear in immigration court. The vast majority never show up.

Concerns also were expressed about Mexican military incursions into the U.S. during the past several years. The incursions -- more than 200 since 1996 -- were first reported by the Daily Bulletin in January.

Partisan bickering ate up the first hour of the hearing, as members of the committee debated dueling House and Senate immigration reform bills, leaving limited time for witnesses to testify. The infighting left some witnesses upset and caused restlessness in the audience.

But by the time witnesses were called to testify, audience members -- most of whom were in support of more enforcement -- cheered periodically as lawmakers were called upon to protect the nation's borders.

"I hope this is not a dog and pony show," said Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-Santa Fe Springs, after the hearing. Napolitano, whose district includes Pomona, is a member of the subcommittee. "These hearings should not be all talk, but action."

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, said the hearings would serve as a warning to the American public that not enough has been done to secure the U.S. from a future terrorist attack, and that cooperation from the Mexican government is very unlikely.

"My opinion is that we should expect no help from Mexico on this issue," Poe said. "The Mexican government policy is to promote entry into the United States, not stop it. We have to do this on our own, and if we don't, we place the people of our nation at risk. This is not acceptable."

San Diego Border Patrol Chief Darryl Griffen, the first to testify, said lack of uniformity in border states' prosecution of smugglers has made it difficult for Border Patrol agents, who sometimes catch the same illegal immigrants three or four times in the same day.

Guidelines set by district attorney's offices are sometimes too lax, and smugglers take advantage of the ineffectual regulations, he said.

Sheriff Rick Flores of Laredo, Texas, gave passionate testimony about the war raging along the border of his community, spilling over from cartel violence in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Flores, along with sheriffs Lee Baca of Los Angeles County and William Kolender of San Diego, told committee members counties are struggling to pay for catching and jailing illegal immigrants.

The millions of undocumented immigrant crossings put agents at a disadvantage because they cannot focus on their primary mission, which is national security, said TJ Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing more than 10,000 border agents.

"Of course, the lack of conclusive evidence that terrorists have successfully entered the United States in no way proves that they have not done so," Bonner said. "It merely proves that we have not been successful in interdicting any of them. This is hardly something to boast about."

Andy Ramirez, chairman of the Chino-based Friends of the Border Patrol, asserted that the Department of Homeland Security is "broken," and that cooperation between federal and local law enforcement agencies is all but nonexistent.

Ramirez also testified on the demise of Project Athena -- designed for the Border Patrol to monitor shipping along the U.S. coastline -- as emblematic of the nation's security problems.

"We cannot fight terrorism on the border when the Border Patrol itself is terrorized from within the Department of Homeland Security, coerced into silence and afraid to tell the truth," Ramirez said.

The committee will hold its second hearing in Laredo on Friday.

Who's DHS working for, anyway?

"We cannot fight terrorism on the border when the Border Patrol itself is terrorized from within the Department of Homeland Security, coerced into silence and afraid to tell the truth," Ramirez said.

Doesn't seem like it's the citizenry.

Who's DHS working for, anyway?

That I can answer. They are working for the receivers of the original bankruptcy of the Republic government of the United States (1935-193 and the subsequent MULTILPLE bankruptcies of the Federal United States INC. (trade names U.S.A. United States of America, U.S.) which were also received by the same entity. IMF (International Monetary Fund )- who supplied all the money for the wars they orchestrated to get this nation and all other nations in debted to them through an agreement signed in 1933 which did NOT provide for repayment of the principle!

Yes our tax dollars fund DHS salaries (ALL THEIR SALARIES including those who "represent us") but our tax dollars are rerooted first to IMF as payment against the debt NONE of us agreed to pay! The U.N. is the public face of the international bankers.


So to answer the question, if their employer wants more tax paying (debt paying) economic slaves in this country to generate higher revenues toward the bankruptcy debts...DHS does what it has to. They look the other way, pretend to enforce the will of the people so that they can avoid the PEOPLE ENFORCING THEIR WILL DIRECTLY. My bet is the job description for DHS is: placate the public and sign up those future economic slaves as "citizens" as quickly as possible.

Any of this beginning to fill in the pieces of the puzzle "why don't they enforce the borders?" Their only goal is to get on record the illegals (path to citizenship/guest workers / shared social security) so they can increase tax revenue ---- period end of story.

They do not care what happens to sovereign citizens who are growing old and will not be contributing to the system but in fact drawing from the system in the form of benefits.

I just finished Tom Tancredo's book last night. I suggest that everyone here read it (although it will give you no peace of mind) and then pass it around to family and friends. It is very informative and quite frankly scary. There is even a part of me that wishes I had not read it.

Tancredo says that even if our current immigration laws were enforced, they would not work. They are inherently flawed and watered down. That being said no matter what the current immigration laws are it is the Federal Government's responsibility and duty to protect our borders which we all know they have not been doing.

In fact there is a very informative chapter about our current system of legal immigration and let me tell you, it is fatally flawed and corrupt. After finishing this book I firmly believe our current system of legal immigration needs to be completely shut down (sorry to any who are awaiting legal immigration) and needs to be redone from top to bottom. As an example there are "individuals of concern" from countries that harbor terrorists that have been given American citizenship.