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Welcome. We represent Border Patrol agents and other non-supervisory employees in the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, covering most of the State of Arizona. We are the largest Local in the Border Patrol. Border Patrol agents are a group of patriotic Americans who perform the dangerous job of policing our borders. There are currently 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country by most estimates, but the real numbers could be much higher and the numbers increase every day because our borders are not secure.

MINUTEMAN PROJECT: We want to make it clear because we've had a lot of questions about this.....we have not had one single complaint from a rank-and-file agent in this Sector about the Minutemen. Every report we've received indicates these people are very supportive of the rank-and-file agents, they're courteous, many of them are retired firefighters, cops, and other professionals, and they're not causing us any problems whatsoever. Reports of them causing "ground sensors" to go off are exaggerated because most of those are being set off by the ACLU sneaking around trying to find the Minutemen doing something wrong. The Minutemen have succeeded in shifting the bulk of the illegal alien traffic out of the Naco corridor. If only President Bush were so supportive of the rank-and-file agents. While President Bush hangs out thousands of miles away in the White House, these people are willing to give up their time and energy to actually do something. While President Bush entices millions of illegal aliens to keep coming with his amnesty proposals and his demoralizing statements that he doesn't want Border Patrol agents chasing "good-hearted people just coming here to take jobs Americans won't do" the Minutemen are trying to get our laws enforced. The Minutemen have made it very clear that they fully support rank-and-file Border Patrol agents. If only we had such support from the politicians we have to work for (aren't we really supposed to be working for the citizens of this country anyway?)!

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Presidente Fox, HELP!: Will you please order your subordinate, George Bush, to get our borders under control? Bush won't listen to the American people, he defies the will of 70 to 80% of us, but you have some obvious power over him. Can you help us out here pal? Maybe order him to hire a few more Border Patrol agents and some equipment so we can patrol the borders? Get him to buy us a few patrol vehicles so we don't have to drive worn out junk with over 150,000 or 200,000 miles on the odometer? Maybe even get him to quit enticing millions more of your countrymen to come over here illegally by throwing endless amnesty proposals out there and telling us we shouldn't be chasing them in the first place because they're just good-hearted people coming here to take jobs we won't do? Maybe get a two-way radio system that actually works? We have a somewhat selfish motive for asking Presidente Fox. You see, at the rate Mr. Bush is cutting our budget, cutting our new hires, cutting our employment rights, depriving us of equipment, demoralizing our workforce with dumb statements, and cutting our pay, we believe that soon these "good hearted illegal aliens" he so desperately wants here may in fact really be doing a job soon that no American will want to do. The job of a Border Patrol agent! We believe he may really have a pent-up and sincere desire to have the "fox" guarding the henhouse. We need some help here buddy. Please!!! Can you help save our jobs?



ATTENTION AGENTS: Looking for another Federal job? Click here. Looking for another local, state, or federal police job? Click here. Be one of the hundreds of demoralized agents trying to get out of here. We have finally given up trying to keep anybody in the BP. We have received dozens of calls and other contacts over the last several weeks from Tucson Sector agents who are giving up on the BP. They tell us a lot of their friends have given up as well. Our current "management team" in DC has this outfit headed in the wrong direction. The votes are in and our agents are fed up with the way they are being treated. The rich get richer (have you seen the fully paid moves and other bennies being collected by our upper managers while the grunts are told to pound sand?), the poor get poorer (look at the patrol vehicle you're driving, then look at the Ford Excursions some of your PAICs are driving.......can you say "needless custom wheels and tires, $1,000s in needless custom accessories, etc". Where the hell does that money come from when we're told there isn't even money to get our worn out vehicles washed half the time?). Our President doesn't back us up (according to him we shouldn't even be arresting illegal aliens unless they're known "terrorists" or career criminals), our family lives are getting ready to take a worse beating with the ouster of the bid for shift, overtime caps, pay cuts, and the advent of the new "indefinite" details to fight "TERRORISM", our wages and rights are being cut, and our borders remain an absolute sieve (so much for any real fight against TERRORISM - it's time the politicians admit that "border security" is an absolute SHAM)!

U.S. BORDER PATROL

Local 2544

Tucson, Arizona

Toll Free (800) 581-2544

Fax (520) 293-6044