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| 500 New Border Patrol Agents Headed to AZ Border |
| 2005-03-29 |
| The Homeland Security Department will assign more than 500 additional patrol agents to the porous Arizona border, saying they will help keep potential terrorists and undocumented immigrants from entering the country, The Associated Press has learned. Of course the Minutemen Project had nothing to do with this.... The border buildup was to be announced Wednesday - two days before civilian volunteers with the so-called Minuteman Project begin a monthlong Arizona patrol against immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico line. About 155 agents will be immediately sent to Arizona, according to a department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the buildup was not yet announced. Another 350 agents - all new trainees - will be permanently assigned to the Arizona border by Sept. 30. Until they are in place, an additional 200 agents will be temporarily stationed in Arizona during the high immigration season this spring and summer, the official said. A Senate aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed Tuesday that more agents would be assigned to Arizona, but could not immediately say exactly how many were involved. The 370-mile Arizona border is considered the most vulnerable stretch of the 2,000-mile southern border. Of the 1.1 million undocumented immigrants apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol last year, 51 percent crossed into the country at the Arizona border. Recent intelligence indicates that al-Qaida leaders are likely to enter the country through the Mexico border and "believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons," former Homeland Security Deputy Secretary James Loy said in written testimony to lawmakers last month. The new agents will come on top of the 210 that President Bush has proposed for all U.S. borders in his budget last month - a number lawmakers have called inadequate to effectively secure the nation's borders. It also falls far short of the 2,000 new agents mandated in intelligence reform legislation enacted in December. Well, we don't want Vicente to get all worked up... Hundreds of civilian "Minuteman" volunteers have signed up to patrol a 40-mile stretch of the southeast Arizona border. They say they will merely identify and follow illegal border-crossers and not interact with them. But some of the volunteers plan to arm themselves, although they have little or no training to confront border-crossers. |
| Posted by:Desert Blondie |
| #22 he'd be calling 911 for help from the freeway much less offroad. Still a coward and a pussy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-03-29 10:45:07 PM |
| #21 Lol, jackal. If it's ol' Stevey, he's up in New Jersey - prolly drivin' a Duster or Gremlin. He's a Wayne's World kind of fool. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-03-29 10:41:59 PM |
| #20 "i [sic] ay [sic] shoot the shit out of them minutemen" Go ahead. Fly into Tucson (OK, since you don't have a job, hitchhike), then it's about 100 miles to the SSE. There will be plenty to choose from. Go ahead, coward. |
| Posted by: jackal 2005-03-29 10:39:25 PM |
| #19 FrankG - That post has a familiar patter... remember ol' Stevey Robinson? Sounds a LOT like him, methinks, heh. If so, lol, "How's the phone support / marketing / burger-flipping going, there, moron?" |
| Posted by: .com 2005-03-29 10:25:37 PM |
| #18 hmmmmm nice TH - you support shooting Americans who are doing nothing wrong? Cowardly pieces of shit like you couldn't borrow your momma's car long enough to get out there, if you even had the real desire. FOAD |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-03-29 10:18:34 PM |
| #17 TH, didja drop an 's' and a comma? Or was the missing comma intentional? |
| Posted by: .com 2005-03-29 10:12:55 PM |
| #16 i ay shoot the shit out of them minutemen |
| Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-03-29 10:07:58 PM |
| #15 Just a mere clarification, sea cruise. Like I said, the rest is a WAG. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-03-29 9:13:12 PM |
| #14 Pappy- Thanks for the correction |
| Posted by: sea cruise 2005-03-29 8:50:51 PM |
| #13 The time is opportune to make W listen to Americans - this shuffling of agents shows they know it. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-03-29 8:28:09 PM |
| #12 These ARE NOT newly minted border agents. They are being shifted temporarily out of other sectors due to the Minutemen. 200 agents from other regions temporarily reassigned to the area for 'peak season'. By Sept 30: 155 veteran agents to be transferred in. 350 rookies to be assigned. Are they there to clampdown on the Minutemen or on the Mexicans? More likely they're to be a buffer. My WAG is that AZ DPS will more likely be used if any clamping- down takes place. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-03-29 7:47:27 PM |
| #11 So the real question is who can last longer, the Minuitemen or the U. S. and Mexican governments. Exactly Mrs D., but some gangs are mad at the minutemen and are going down to AZ to challenge them... By the way-- Were you just on Hewitt talking baout Nascar?? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-03-29 7:15:01 PM |
| #10 El Baksheesho, Seafarious? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-03-29 6:30:37 PM |
| #9 These ARE NOT newly minted border agents. They are being shifted temporarily out of other sectors due to the Minutemen. Are they there to clampdown on the Minutemen or on the Mexicans? |
| Posted by: sea cruise 2005-03-29 6:21:14 PM |
| #8 Nice summary, Paul. I read (some article, somewhere, no link, sorry) that Mexican ex-pats in America send >$45 billion to Mexico every year. It's Mexico's biggest industry, after oil. Fox is not gonna give up that revenue stream without a fight, nor the coyotes, nor the mid-level officiales who are accustomed to the baksheesh. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-03-29 5:34:02 PM |
| #7 When the People lead, the leaders will follow. We want good bilateral relations with Mexico and Canada. Bilateral means two ways. With Mexico, we must encourage honesty and integrety in government. We are not their dumping ground. Mexico needs to look at its internal affairs and clean them up, and not dump on the US for all its problems. The Minutemen are the results of when a US administration does not take on its responsibilities. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-03-29 5:24:29 PM |
| #6 I wonder if we should start a special page w/ minute man updates once it kicks off. Maybe even an office pool of when the first shot will be fired, etc. I think the minuteman project is a cool idea in theory but I have a feeling it willout bad. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2005-03-29 4:16:31 PM |
| #5 This had my blood pressure going: They say they will merely identify and follow illegal border-crossers and not interact with them. But some of the volunteers plan to arm themselves, although they have little or no training to confront border-crossers. One has nothing to do with the other. Didn't the reporter just mention that they have no intentions of confronting or detaining anyone? Then why would their lack of training in confronting and detaining be an issue? I know this no load, panty-waisted wuss of a reporter thinks that because they're going armed (scary, scary), they're just itchin' to blow somebody away. No!, you idiot, it's not to confront. It's to defend oneself from the thugs and bandits crossing our borders that have openly called for violence against the Minutemen! (/rant off, cancel the ambulance) |
| Posted by: Psycho Hillbilly 2005-03-29 4:08:59 PM |
| #4 Squeaking wheel getting greased. I don't think the new BP agents will kill anyone, but they will spend a lot of time looking at the Minutemen. Bush and the BP are working with fruit and vegetable growers, Fox and Mexico not the average American citizen. Vincente will also cut the flow to a trickle down there. You know he and the Federales are getting a cut from the smugglers. So the reql question is who can last longer, the Minuitemen or the U. S. and Mexican governments. Because the day the last Minuteman and cameraman leave, the flood gates will be opened wider than ever. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-03-29 3:12:22 PM |
| #3 Squeaking wheel getting greased. I say keep the pressure up Minute Men, it's the only way the government will do anything. As soon as we are not looking those agents will be assigned to other non border security assignments. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-03-29 3:06:45 PM |
| #2 The Arizona border, you say? What a coincidence! |
| Posted by: Jeff 2005-03-29 3:03:28 PM |
| #1 And I bet that there is going to be so much video of those 500 taped for the MSM, that it will look like they are standing shoulder-to-shoulder along the entire border. I also wonder if they are going to take the phone off the hook, so when the Minutemen start phoning in reports, the feds can feign ignorance. Maybe the feds will tell the illegals to come in through San Diego for a month, but "Keep 'em coming! Just get on the bus and a job is waiting for you! Call your friends and get them to cross the border! Mmmm! Cheap labor! Gimmee gimmee!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-03-29 2:36:03 PM |