Thread: Research Project - Enforce the Law!

One year later, Guard troops along 4 border states to be cut

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The idea behind Operation Jump Start was to fortify the number of boots on the ground while thousands of new Border Patrol agents were being trained, he said.

How many have been trained vs the number of troops?

Dixie

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VOTERS ARE NOT BEING REQUIRED TO PROVE CITIZENSHIP. ILLEGALS ARE VOTING.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/search/ci_6103568

Dixie, please take a look at the references in this discussion of Mandamus,
especially girlygirl369's promo for a class action suit instead of a Writ of Mandamus
(which is notoriously difficult to advocate, much less enforce).

Thanks MinutemanCDC_SC for the tip.

Everyone keep up the good work!

Dixie

Nogales Tunnel Raises Questions
Border Easement and Tunnel Detection

Cheek to jowl - No border buffer zone in Nogales. (See larger photos)
American Border Patrol
The report that still another tunnel has been found along the Mexican border has raised questions about federal border enforcement.
There is hardly any buffer along the border, http://americanpatrol.com/07-FEATURES/0 ... tmldespite the fact that Secretary Chertoff has the authority to create one. http://americanpatrol.com/07-FEATURES/0 ... evelt.html Despite the availability of effective seismic methods
http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/sessions5?me ... part=NS21A
for detecting tunneling activity, there is no record that the DHS is using these methods.
"Stopping the tunneling into the U.S. is simple matter," said Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol, "Secretary Chertoff need only to implement the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and bury a couple of strings of geophones to put a complete halt to this nonsense."


http://americanpatrol.com/07-FEATURES/0 ... ature.html



Tucson Region
Another Nogales drug tunnel found
By Brady McCombs
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.13.2007
advertisementOfficials discovered another cross-border tunnel in Nogales on Wednesday, the third in three weeks.
The tunnel measured about 30 yards, connecting an apartment in Nogales, Ariz., to a drainage gate that linked a drainage system in Nogales, Sonora, said Ramona Sanchez, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman.
The trail to the tunnel discovery began on Tuesday when Border Patrol agents spotted a Jeep Grand Cherokee leaving the area of North Dunbar Street in Nogales. Agents began to follow the vehicle, prompting the driver to flee and crash his vehicle, she said.
Agents recovered 540 pounds of marijuana inside the Jeep near the crash site and arrested the driver, Braulio Rubalcaba-Valenzuela, and passenger, David Olmedo-Carrasco. Based on information from the Border Patrol, Drug Enforcement Administration agents identified a possible stash house where the drugs came from.
On Wednesday, DEA agents and Nogales police officers executed a search warrant at 20 N. Dunbar St., about a quarter-mile west of the Dennis DeConcini port of entry. There they discovered the exit for a tunnel next to the front door of the vacant, sparsely furnished apartment, the release said.
The tunnel connected to an east-west drainage system beneath Calle La Reform in Nogales, Sonora. The tunnel is approximately 2 feet by 3 feet in diameter, 6 feet deep and the tunnel shaft was reinforced with metal bars, Sanchez said.
The tunnel had been used since February, Sanchez said. The marijuana agents recovered from the Jeep presumably came through the tunnel, she said.
Rubalcaba-Valenzuela and Olmedo-Carrasco, both Mexicans, were arraigned in federal court Wednesday and charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
DEA agents were scheduled to permanently fill the tunnel today. The agency, along with the Santa Cruz County Metro Task Force, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol are coordinating the ongoing investigation.
On June 28-29, officials discovered two tunnels in Nogales within a 24-hour period. One measured 100 yards and had never been used, while they found more than 3,000 pounds of marijuana in the other.
U.S. authorities have discovered approximately 40 tunnels beneath the border between Arizona and San Diego since Sept. 11, 2001, officials said.
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Lou Dobbs reported last night that many areas within US national forests are being occupied by Mexican drug cartels who are heavily armed and growing marijuana. You've got to be kidding me!! This federal government is completely anti-American!! I don't see anything American about it at all! They are trying to bring about the fall of our nation in any and every way possible, and they must be stopped. We are in a State of Emergency!

I will try to find out why neither the Surgeon General nor the CDC issued warnings to Americans about the dangerous and highly contageous diseases being brought in by illegals, and what are the current numbers per disease.

Here's an article that Jean posted on Monday about the national forests being used by drug cartels.


Cartels grow pot on 'national treasures'

By Jerry Seper
July 16, 2007


Last week, John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said public lands "are now ground zero for international and domestic drug cultivation and trafficking" during Operation Alesia, a multiagency marijuana-eradication initiative.

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Marijuana cultivation on public land in the U.S. is a multibillion-dollar business, run by Mexican drug cartels and guarded by heavily armed members of U.S.-based street gangs and Mexican nationals, says the head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).

"Our national treasures are now ground zero for international and domestic drug cultivation and trafficking," said drug czar John P. Walters. "We must push back against the invasion of foreign drug-trafficking organizations through increased law-enforcement collaboration, enhanced intelligence and expanded investigations to reclaim our public lands."

Mr. Walters made his comments last week during Operation Alesia, a multiagency marijuana-eradication initiative in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, the largest national forest in California.

Coordinated by the Shasta County Sheriff's Office with the support of the California National Guard, the weeklong operation involved 17 federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies.

"America's public lands are under attack," Mr. Walters said. "Instead of being appreciated as national treasures, they are being exploited and destroyed by foreign drug-trafficking organizations and heavily armed Mexican marijuana cartels."

ONDCP spokesman Stephen E. Schatz said violent Mexican drug cartels construct, operate and manage 80 percent to 90 percent of all U.S.-based marijuana plantations — most of which are in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Kentucky, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia.

Mr. Schatz said those hired to tend and guard them do so with high-tech equipment and state-of-the-art weapons.

He said California's public lands are exceptionally vulnerable, adding that nine out of the top 10 marijuana-producing sites are found in that state and that 57 percent of all marijuana produced on public land in the U.S. is grown in California.
"Last year alone, close to 2.8 million outdoor marijuana plants were eradicated in California, including 1.7 million plants from federal and state land, with an estimated street value of $6.7 billion," he said.


The marijuana plantations also have lead to a litany of problems for outdoor enthusiasts, law-enforcement personnel and the environment, he said. An increasing number of campers, fishermen, hikers, hunters and forest and park officials are being intimidated, threatened or assaulted when they come near a Mexican-run marijuana garden.


Mr. Schatz said the ecosystems in the nation's forests and parks are also being jeopardized, adding that to establish and maintain a marijuana plantation, the drug cartels must clear-cut native plants and trees, poach and hunt wildlife, and divert natural waterways — all to the detriment of the ecosystems.

He said federal authorities have estimated that one marijuana garden can produce as much as 53 thirty-gallon bags of trash per season.

The National Parks Service has said that for every acre of forest planted with marijuana, a total of 10 acres are damaged. The service has estimated that it costs $11,000 per acre to repair and restore national forest land once it is contaminated with toxic chemicals and fertilizers, human waste, and irrigation tubing and pipes associated with marijuana cultivation.

Mr. Walters, during a press conference at the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, described those who plant and tend the gardens as terrorists and said Operation Alesia was aimed at crippling the drug gangs behind the marijuana cultivation.
"This business we intend to put into recession, depression, and put its leaders into jail," he said.
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98 Percent of Border Crossers Never Prosecuted

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Illegal Border-Crossers Rarely Prosecuted

EL PASO, Texas, April 7, 2007

(AP) For all the tough talk out of Washington on immigration, illegal immigrants caught along the Mexican border have almost no reason to fear they will be prosecuted.

Ninety-eight percent of those arrested between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30, 2005, were never prosecuted for illegally entering the country, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data. Nearly 5.3 million immigrants were simply escorted back across the Rio Grande and turned loose. Many presumably tried to slip into the U.S. again.

The number of immigrants prosecuted annually tripled during that five-year period, to 30,848 in fiscal year 2005, the most recent figures available. But that still represented less than 3 percent of the 1.17 million arrests made that year. The prosecution rate was just under 1 percent in 2001.

The likelihood of an illegal immigrant being prosecuted is "to me, practically zero," said Kathleen Walker, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/ ... 0111.shtml

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Carpentersville's 287(g) funding delayed.

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