Our Government Turned on the Minutemen

[Drumingman]

I heard an interview today by the guy who heads the minutemen.
When they are down watching the border for folks coming in,
our border patrol contacts the Mexican Government and tells them
where the minutemen are stationed so they can warn border crossers.

So There....

[Polk65]

U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols
By Sara A. Carter, Staff Writer

"While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are."

"A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed."

The article continues... http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3799653

[brettw22]

Our fearless leaders need to have their asses handed to them.....

Hope we're also cc'ing Al Queda on all these important details.

[PolkThug]

Interesting, the Minuteman members serve as an alert system for the US border patrol, which in turn, alerts the Mexicans. WTF

[shepx2]

It's getting to the point were I ALMOST want to see someone suicide bomb our congressmen that are making these decisions.

[BIZILL]

i hate it ALL!

[brettw22]

Shep, they're not gonna take out the people that are seemingly allowing them all the access to our country they want.

[exalted512]

Who cares if the minute men hurt them? What theyre doing IS ILLEGAL. **** em
-Cody

[warren]

The whole Congress sucks, vote out all incumbants. Period. They will get the message. The border states should have the National Guard patroling, lock and load. Warren

[Polk65]

Who cares if the minute men hurt them? What theyre doing IS ILLEGAL. **** em
-Cody

I care. Take your axe to the voting booth. Write to your newspaper and TV station when they misrepresent the news. It's illegal immigrant rights not legal immigrant rights that they are selling (sic) reporting.

[George Grand]

You want the guard patrolling the borders? Help them out and join the guard. Get your money and your mouth in the same area.

[bobman1235]

May 27 they break ground on their first (of hopefully many) fence on a private rancher's property, funded by donations. Double-fence, razor wire, moats. It's amazing when you hear the things that these private landowners along the border have to deal with - border jumpers invading their house for food, killing their dogs so they don't make noise, etc. And the gov't will do nothing to help them.

Click to donate to the effort.

[unc2701]

Actually, I don't have a problem with this... Why? OK, those people about to cross the border at a particular spot don't have the means to pack up and head to another town that day. The second they get across the border, they become a big pain in the ass for the official border patrol AND the minutemen. What it does is 1)let them know that we ARE paying attention and 2)keeps them out of the country a little longer.

What the minutemen need to do is start calling the border guards to let them know where they'll be, let them make the call to the mexicans, then head to a different spot.

Yeah, it looks like backstabbing, but i think the net effect is less illegals coming in.

[min888]

"You want the guard patrolling the borders? Help them out and join the guard. Get your money and your mouth in the same area."

Won't work because you don't know where they will send ya, who knows maybe you'll end up in Iraq. Besides our fearless Congress won't send the Guards to patrol the border, they are afraid of the Latino votes. HELLO, they are not legal they CAN'T VOTE..... YET, unless our fearless leader make them legal.

"What the minutemen need to do is start calling the border guards to let them know where they'll be, let them make the call to the mexicans, then head to a different spot. "

Very good idea. Yeah, lets send all of the incumbent packing unless they secure our border and deport all of the illegal immigrants.

[Skynut]

Un be-effing-lievable.

[warren]

Did my service sonny, and that’s what we pay taxes for, and that’s their job description. Aloha, Warren

[Frank Z]

Who cares if the minute men hurt them? What theyre doing IS ILLEGAL. **** em
-Cody

You sir, are an ASS.

I'm sure your comment was intended to incite, and of course you succeeded. Obviously not a serious statemnt because any child with even the smallest amount of grey matter floating around in their G2 Housing Group would not make such an infantile comment.

Take a look at your wrist watch...it's time to grow up.

Another Dumbass added to the growing Ignore list.

[warren]

You want the guard patrolling the borders? Help them out and join the guard. Get your money and your mouth in the same area.

Did my service sonny, that’s what we pay taxes for, and that’s their job description.

[George Grand]

"Sonny" is approaching 30 years of military service. Re-join if you feel that strongly, Sonny.

[Skynut]

That has gota sting ^^

[George Grand]

Not at this end. Not real concerned about the other end.

[Skynut]

That is the end I was refering to. :D

[aaharvel]

fubar.

[Crazed]

Brett:

I see we've got a new shipment of pills! :(

[warren]

"Sonny" is approaching 30 years of military service. Re-join if you feel that strongly, Sonny.

Thanks for the shot, if I were able I wouldn’t. The President is not a leader, his ethics are questionable. If every one in the service showed up when they wanted to like Bush did when he was in the National Guard’ well’ it’s a good thing our Service People don’t have his traits. I just retired from the DOD Pearl Harbor last year. 35 years of service. Regards, Warren

[aaharvel]

the minutemen is only the start.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...5-10-nsa_x.htm

[brettw22]

Brett:

I see we've got a new shipment of pills! :(

SHHHHHHHHHH,,,you might get 3 pages on the identity of "we"......

[Danny Tse]

the minutemen is only the start.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...5-10-nsa_x.htm

And I am thinking that is only the tip of the iceberg....

[Demiurge]

Going to have to say I agree with Sherrif Joe Arpaio...

Immigration crackdown intensifies

William Hermann and Judi Villa
The Arizona Republic
May. 11, 2006 12:00 AM

Valley law enforcement agencies are ramping up efforts to combat illegal immigration, but they are using the state's anti-human-smuggling statute to tackle the problem from two different directions.

On the one hand, a multi-agency financial crimes task force has been using surveillance and undercover operations for the past two months to target smugglers and cripple them financially.

On the other hand, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has mobilized a posse to seek out and arrest undocumented immigrants for conspiracy to smuggle themselves into the United States.

The efforts come on the heels of an anti-human-smuggling statute that took effect in Arizona in August and gave prosecutors a tool to go after "coyotes," or smugglers, who traffic in undocumented immigrants. The Maricopa County Attorney's Office later issued an opinion saying undocumented immigrants suspected of paying coyotes could be prosecuted as conspirators.

Both approaches initially appear to be having an impact.

On Wednesday, task force officials from Phoenix police, the state Department of Public Safety and the Arizona Attorney General's Office announced their investigation into human-smuggling operations and money laundering has netted 62 arrests, along with weapons, cars and cash.

The ongoing investigation has been an attack of smuggling operations "from the top down," DPS Director Roger Vanderpool said.

"We are going after the leaders. We believe that our police shouldn't become immigration officers," Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon said. "Do we want to raid restaurants and arrest dishwashers? We need to arrest the people at the top."

In the past two months, the task force has seized 11 weapons, 62 vehicles, six real estate properties valued at $1.7 million, 5 kilograms of cocaine and 3 pounds of marijuana. In addition, $4.8 million in cash was seized and 528 undocumented immigrants were turned over to immigration authorities, Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris said.

"These people are in this for the cash," state Attorney General Terry Goddard said. "If we're going to cut off this poison, we're going to do it by making it unprofitable to conduct human smuggling."

On Wednesday night, Arpaio's posse fanned out across the desert, looking for illegal immigrants being smuggled on state highways and local roadways. In the past six weeks, Arpaio's operation has jailed 146 undocumented immigrants, including 12 smugglers.

Arpaio said Wednesday that he hoped his agency's efforts would be a deterrent, with illegal immigrants and smugglers realizing they're going to jail.

"They have to get the message and stop coming over here," Arpaio said. "Do it legally."

Joe's Biography:

Joe Arpaio was the child of immigrants from Naples, Italy. His mother died during childbirth; his father had little interest in raising young Joe, whose upbringing was left to whatever family members were willing to take him in. As a result of his father’s abandonment, Arpaio spent his childhood being shuffled back and forth between different families.

Joe Arpaio enlisted in the United States Army and served from 1950-1953. According to an April, 2001 article in Harper's magazine, Arpaio claimed to be a Korean War veteran. However, according to a partisan website critical of Joe, Arpaio.com, his assignment was actually in France.

Following his discharge, he moved to Washington, D.C. and then to Las Vegas, Nevada, serving on both cities' police forces. He married Ava Arpaio in 1956. Some time afterward, Arpaio obtained a job as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, working there for more than two decades. During that time, he was stationed in both Turkey and Mexico and advanced to the position of head of the DEA's Arizona branch, where he served for four years before retiring.

[bobman1235]

Going to have to say I agree with Sherrif Joe Arpaio...

I heard an interview on the radio this morning with this guy. He is my new hero. What a badass.