The US government is not serious about enforcing it's own immigration laws


And they will sell out the Minutemen for political objectives
So, exactly what is going on here?

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.

"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday.

"This ... simply makes two basic statements -- that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person."

Minuteman members were not so sanguine about the arrangement, however, saying that reporting their location to Mexican officials nullifies their effectiveness along the border and could endanger their lives.

"Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time," said Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. "It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels.

"They just basically endangered the lives of American people."

Just to remind you, the Mexican government encourages it's own people to break United States law.

It's heavily dependent on the cash flow from north of the border.

And remember, if the immigration laws had been enforced, there wouldn't have been nearly enough men to hijack one plane, much less four, on September 9, 2001.

Compare the actions of the CBP with the DEA, and see if you notice a difference in how each decides to enforce the law.

Am I the only one who is confused that the DEA will launch heavily armed SWAT raids into doctor offices at the least provocation, but the CBP reports to the Mexican government on Minutemen watching the Mexican border?

But wait, it gets worse. This is from the Minutemen site.

This article does not report information told to the MCDC media offices that the Border Patrol chiefs have also been passing along intelligence reports to the government of Mexico on the activities of Minutemen not only at the borders, but in locations such as Utah, Nevada, Illinois, Massaschusetts and Tennessee. Perhaps a follow-up story is forthcoming or an over zealous editor removed the information?

Portions of a report distributed last August to the Mexican government from Border Patrol bureaucrats read over the phone to the MCDC media offices contained not only numbers (estimates of membership) of Minutemen in Illinois, but a statement on their activities and that they didn't seem to know any politicians there, indicating that the Illinois Minutemen didn't yet have any political clout.

That is not a report on the location of Minutemen at the border, but political intelligence from our government to a foreign nation about the activities of American citizens petitioning our own government for redress of grievances.

Now granted, the Minutemen aren't exactly unbiased in this situation. But the Federal government has been ignoring it's own laws, even going so far as to "catch and release" illegals.

More to the point though, if the Minutemen report is right, why is the United States government telling another government about the internal and legal activities of it's own citizens?

Can you imagine the uproar if the United States government had demanded that another government provide the same information on it's own citizens to the United States?

And just what crime are the Minutemen supposed to have committed?

Why doesn't the United States enforce it's own border laws?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - May 9, 2006 at 11:26 AM  Tag


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