Playing politics with the borders?


Border Patrol agents in Arizona may have been ordered to reduce arrests to discredit the Minuteman Project.
I haven't been able to verify this story yet, but I am looking into it.

"U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.

"More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration."

I can tell you that illegal immigration is an extremely touchy subject, especially in southern Arizona. Hospitals, schools, social services have all been overwhelmed in the last decade or so, but Arizona takes a lower priority than Texas and California.

Check out the Minuteman Project and judge for yourself.

Now I happen to think that immigration should be opened up. But under the current system, illegals can and do take services that were intended for citizens. Of course, that brings up the question of why we expect medical and social services to be paid by the government in the first place, but that is another entry.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - May 13, 2005 at 08:01 AM  Tag


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