OUR BORDER PATROL…OR MEXICO’S?
UPDATE 5/10/06: DHS: DENY, HEDGE, SPIN
I am getting this directly from Michelle Malkin. Please read this info!
Who does the U.S. Border Patrol work for? Apparently, not for us.
If you have high blood pressure, don’t read on. The Daily Bulletin reports:
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen — and telling the Mexican government where they are.
According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants — and if and when violence is used against border crossers.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.”
Officials with the Mexican consulate in Washington, D.C., could not be reached for comment Monday.
To top it all off, Border Patrol agents are reportedly being told to ignore reports of illegal alien sightings–or to omit credit to Minutemen when they file such reports with DHS:
TJ Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing more than 10,000 Border Patrol agents, said agents have complained for years about the Mexican consulate’s influence over the agency.
“It worries me (that the Mexican government) seems to be unduly influencing our enforcement policies. That’s not a legitimate role for any foreign nation,” Bonner said, though he added, “It doesn’t surprise me.”Border Patrol agents interviewed by the Daily Bulletin said they have been asked to report to sector headquarters the location of all civilian volunteer groups, but to not file the groups’ names in reports if they spot illegal immigrants.
“Last year an internal memo notified all agents not to give credit to Minuteman volunteers or others who call in sightings of illegal aliens,” said one agent, who spoke on the condition he not be identified. “We were told to list it as a citizen call and leave it at that. Many times, we were told not to go out to Minuteman calls.”
Not a surprise, of course, when the nation’s own president considers overwhelmingly peaceful supporters of immigration enforcement “vigilantes.”
And Now This from Michelle:
I’ll keep updating my first post on this subject with reader feedback. Meantime, the Minutemen Blog has details not reported by the Daily Bulletin:
Sara Carter, a reporter with the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, reports today that she found documentation on Mexican government websites that show higher ups in the United States Border Patrol have been tipping off the corrupt Mexican government as to the locations of the Minutemen along the border.
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, Massachusetts and Tennessee. Perhaps a follow-up story is coming tomorrow or an over zealous editor took the info out?Part 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 (estimated chapter 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.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps media offices will contact the reporter to inquire about copies of the documents and the timing on a follow-up story with the reports to the Mexican government of activities of Minutemen in INTERIOR states, as if reports of our locations in the border states weren’t bad enough.
If the ACLU weren’t so busy demonizing the Minutemen, you would think they might be on the side of law-abiding Americans being surveilled by their government. Where are the privocrats now?
May 9, 2006 - 10:09 PM on May 9th, 2006
this info about how low our non government came out today, i always had the idea that our so called government is and was working for the drug dealers in mexico city and now i can say it is.
and yes our government has sold us all out to some rats and its normal for low life pigs to tell the murderous foregn pigs of mexico city were the minutemen are, someday for race reasons our rats in our government will order the mass murder of minutemen who are standing against the rats in Wash-Mex-Low Life Pigs( new name for washington D.C. ) and mexico city DRUG DEALERS.:evil::evil::evil: WE NEED TO GO TO THAT PLACE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? Ask what this government is telling Bin Laden? is Bush A Mexican Jihad guy? he appears to be working for mexico and its drug dealers? and maybe others also?
May 10, 2006 - 12:24 AM on May 10th, 2006
One MCDC volunteer called one of the Local Talk show hosts this morning and told about how they could here the illegals and coyotes talking on FRS radios about where the illegals were in reference to MCDC checkpoints. They even referred to the checkpoints by number.
I have to agree that the ACLU rally shows its stripes on this one. They support lawbreakers and terrorists while refusing to actually support law abiding citizens.
May 10, 2006 - 04:50 AM on May 10th, 2006
U.S. Border Patrol Tips off Mexico to Minuteman Patrols
Michael Savage interviewed Minuteman organizer Chris Simcox yesterday afternoon on this very issue which I have provided in part here. Heads should roll and they will if I am correctly reading the pulse of other conservative bloggers out there.
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May 10, 2006 - 06:12 AM on May 10th, 2006
lets face facts, our so called government loves the third world rulers, someday you will be living in mexico or dead in a mass grave, this is what its really all about ask why no more attacks by bin laden?
bush is now using the mexicans to attack the USA, ASK Why are our borders still opened after 9-11, ask where is bin laden? ask is Bush really running this government? is bush being told what to do? ask who is in real power in washington?
May 10, 2006 - 06:58 AM on May 10th, 2006
Oh yes, check out the names and you will understand why.
face facts our so called government cares nothing about your grievances or petitions or any real rights, sensible and rational government is dead, it is now the enemy of the people.
May 10, 2006 - 07:04 AM on May 10th, 2006
They are traitors all they are informing a outlaw nation and they all should be fired and sent to prison:mad:
May 10, 2006 - 02:16 PM on May 10th, 2006
hillary, “when not if” she become the head rat in washington will order the mexican troops to kill the MM Just watch and see, it will be a cover-up for race raesons and our government will help in all things and you maybe the next new jew inside the death camps.
h yes, “didn’t hillary back the taliban at one time”? she will do many waco’s on old and young ( of the right race if you know what i mean) innocent people little kids like at waco and she will hand over info to kill Americans in iraq and someday like here old bILL will hand over info to the reds in china TO KILL US HERE. 
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May 10, 2006 - 10:12 PM on May 10th, 2006
Hillary will never again see the inside of the White House as anything but a guest.