For some time now I’ve been saying there are growing, very serious problems within the Border Patrol, brought on, primarily, by the fact that many new agents are being added to appease the catawalling of the RINOconservative right. Unfortunately, because of this, the new recruits are not being vetted properly. Add to the mix the poor pay, long hours, stressful conditions, and you have an agency on the verge of a breakdown, literally. Then, put one fatal flaw in as a wild card, and we have a recipe for disaster. It is all too easy for agents to be bribed by coyotes and drug dealers. Bottom line: It is an agency if not out of control now, it will be. Corruption is rampant. Does anyone care? Just how wide-spread is abuse, mis-management, and fraud?
Corruption on the Border – a watchdog organization. Is there a culture of corruption?
You will want to check out the outrageous site of Tom Alciere, a former member of the NH House. It is called Deport the Border Patrol.
Did you know they can operate without warrants? Yep – no checks and balances. The bottom line here is terrorists are entitled to more ‘rights’ than illegals and immigrants – and ANYONE else – and I do mean ANYONE else – who gets in their way (more on that later).
(a) Powers without warrant
Any officer or employee of the Service authorized under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General shall have power without warrant—(1) to interrogate any alien or personbelieved to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States;(2) to arrest any alien who in his presence or view is entering or attempting to enter the United States in violation of any law or regulation made in pursuance of law regulating the admission, exclusion, expulsion, or removal of aliens, or to arrest any alien in the United States, if he has reason to believe that the alien so arrested is in the United States in violation of any such law or regulation and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest, but the alien arrested shall be taken without unnecessary delay for examination before an officer of the Service having authority to examine aliens as to their right to enter or remain in the United States;(3) within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States, to board and search for aliens any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States and any railway car, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle, and within a distance of twenty-five miles from any such external boundary to have access to private lands, but not dwellings, for the purpose of patrolling the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States; Please keep in mind for a later story, that Juarez is 57 miles – fifty-seven – five-seven miles from San Patricio, New Mexico. About the illegal check points.(4) to make arrests for felonies which have been committed and which are cognizable under any law of the United States regulating the admission, exclusion, expulsion, or removal of aliens, if he has reason to believe that the person so arrested is guilty of such felony and if there is likelihood of the person escaping before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest, but the person arrested shall be taken without unnecessary delay before the nearest available officer empowered to commit persons charged with offenses against the laws of the United States; and(5) to make arrests—(A) for any offense against the United States, if the offense is committed in the officer’s or employee’s presence, or(B) for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States, if the officer or employee has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such a felony,if the officer or employee is performing duties relating to the enforcement of the immigration laws at the time of the arrest and if there is a likelihood of the person escaping before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest.Under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General, an officer or employee of the Service may carry a firearm and may execute and serve any order, warrant, subpoena, summons, or other process issued under the authority of the United States. The authority to make arrests under paragraph (5)(B) shall only be effective on and after the date on which the Attorney General publishes final regulations which
BORDER PATROL AGENTS ARE NOT PERFECT
Terri Bressi has a great site.
In 2001 a BP agent was convicted of sexually abusing his step-daughter. He received probation of seven years and lost his job.
BP trashes a family ranch to apprehend illegals.
Agent charged with killing detained alien.
Have hundreds of Hispanics been detained and arrested simply because of racial profiling and the fact that they were Spanish speaking? There is quite a bit of evidence to show this indeed, occured. Warning – ACLU piece.
Problems BP causes communities. BP agent charged with murder.
Enviromental problems created by BP.
They don’t like critics or assistance.
Improperly caring for children, and why whistleblowers lose their jobs. One thing I’ve noticed, BP whistleblowers end up enemployed.
“…Abuse of minors is only one of several allegations made by Cruz, a veteran agent who says he’s being targeted for speaking out about harassment of detainees. Cruz also charges that exhausted immigrants are squeezed into vastly overcrowded cells at the Douglas station; that many–including pregnant women, children and the elderly–often go without food for up to 20 hours; and that direct physical abuse includes use of the notorious and painful “chair,” in which people are forced into a chair-like position, with their backs pressed against the wall for long periods of time…”
Harassment of churches in Las Cruces near the border.
Border Patrol kicked out of Phoenix area by INS!
Locals fear border patrol, minutemen, et. al, & illegals.
How about conspiricy and drug smuggling?
Another questionable killing.
More abuse.
Assaults on human rights workers.
More arrests for sexual assault.
Another assaulted girl friend.
My friend Leroy has been harassed over a period of years at the Hwy 70 checkpoint near Alamogordo. Leroy has blue eyes, is blond at times and is gay. Is that why they are harassing him?
Harassment for Tide possession.
Harassment of legal Americans at checkpoints.
BP accused of harassment, racial profiling. Why can the INS and BP racially profile Hispanics but not Islamics?
More on the San Diego problem.
Why isn’t the BP going after ‘special interest aliens’ instead of hunting Mexican illegals? They catch a bunch of people who just want to make their lives better and let potential terrorists, who had been spoted and were being watched by a news crew, go. What’s up with that? In other words, as long as a terrorist isn’t Hispanic, he’s free to go about the country!
Need a Green Card? Trade sex with an INS agent.
Federal judge profiled and detained.
Harassment lead to murder in El Paso.
Yet another agent arrested for harboring an illegal girl friend. Should a person be facing up to five years in prison just for living with a person who is illegal? Why should an individual be arrested because they have information or harbor an illegal?
Immigrant communities are now living in fear over the raids. Let’s be honest here, if people like Tancredo and those blasted minutemen, et. al weren’t putting such pressure on the Feds, this wouldn’t be happing.
Death toll along the San Diego border.
Another murder? Illegal killing?
What is the link between the BP and INS and mass murder on the border?
There is a list of offenses committed by the BP. Unfortunately there is no documentation and the font on the site is miserable to read.
Are Cochise County #’s misleading?
And another murder…!
On January 31, 2005 Border Patrol agents, along with the US Marshal service burst onto the property of my friends, there in San Patricio, 57 miles from the border. A year earlier Raymond’s son, we will call him Jose Cruz, lost his wallet while shopping in El Paso. Evidently the person who stole it was from Mexico. The agents burst onto their property, held the family at gunpoint, detained and arrested “Jose” who was taken to the Lincoln County Jail. Fortunately, his father is friends with one of the top defense attorneys in the country. They refused to listen to him. Seems that they had “Jose’s” driver’s liscence number, voter registration number, all this, and never bothered to check if he was “Legal” and to compare his photo to the murderer they were looking for. If you are Hispanic, you are a suspect with no rights. Why do you think I started this ’cause’? It was because of Raymond’s story. This article says they can operate within 100 miles of a border.
What the BP does to whistle-blowers. There are several lurid tales.
“…The 80 year history of the U.S. Border Patrol has demonstrated time after time that they do not respect the human and civil rights of immigrants — not even U.S. citizens — as they demonstrated during the notorious “repatriations” of the 1930s and 1940s when they rounded up tens of thousands of U.S. citizens, legal residents and suspected undocumented immigrants and deported (repatriated) them to Mexico. In the 1950s, during ‘Operation Wetback”, the same racist tactics were used in detaining and arresting U.S. citizens, legal residents, and suspected undocumented immigrants. During these sweeps, the Border Patrol was only interested in the color of our skin, not whether we could prove we were U.S. citizens. During the early 1950s when Operation Wetback was in full swing, I was stopped, detained and often arrested by the Border Patrol on my way home from school, leaving my part-time job, or in my job. They never asked me for proof of any kind. They just hauled me out to the van. Even after I told them I was born in the U.S. they took me driving around looking for more people to arrest…”
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