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May 13, 2005
Minutemen Part 9
The minutemen will be patrolling the Texas-Mexico border. The Laredo area is extremely dangerous with hundreds of unsolved murders in the area along with rampant drug trading and gang activity. A Laredo institution contacted me when I was looking for a job recently and it was the only place I did not interview with that contacted me, even though it was offering me the highest potential pay. Mostly that was because I do not know anyone in Laredo and my wife did not want to move there, but the fact that crime is out of control did not help either.
Here is the story from the Houston Chronicle:
Chris Simcox, the leader of the controversial Arizona group that is attempting to prevent the entry of illegal immigrants from Mexico, says he is considering October for the beginning of patrols along the Rio Grande in South Texas. Other patrols are being considered for New Mexico and California.But Simcox says there are serious logistical problems for patrols in Texas. Most of the land along the Texas border is privately owned, and some of it is urbanized, unlike the open land the group monitored in Arizona.
Unfortunately the Border Patrol has supposedly reacted to the success of the minutemen by not doing their job and have purposely not arrested people in the areas once patrolled by the minutemen. Situations like this are why I think the minutemen are a necessary evil. The Washington Times reports:
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.
If this story is true the persons who ordered the agents not to arrest people should be fired and permanently banned from any law enforcement activities. Meanwhile the Mexican government is mad because we are trying to protect our borders from foreign invasion. The Financial Times reports:
Mexico has reacted furiously to a bill signed into law by the US this week that would fund a border wall and prevent illegal Mexican migrants from obtaining US driving licenses.President Vicente Fox said he would lodge a diplomatic complaint, and was considering complaints to multilateral bodies if Mexico could not unable to resolve the problem bilaterally.
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Posted by Pete at May 13, 2005 05:18 PM
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