The message of that latter policy to illegal aliens is clear: You can commit all the identity theft and low-level crime you want as long as you don’t get caught too often. But kill someone and the Obama regime just might get serious about you. Maybe.
Now on top of that message, the station closures may send another: The borders for all practical purposes are in the process of being erased.
Border Patrol’s resident agent in charge in Amarillo expressed similar worries, in a recent memo to local law enforcement alerting them to the planned closure. The official, Robert Green, warned that the “entire complement” of two agents would be reassigned from Amarillo to somewhere closer to the border. He said “there is no active plan” right now for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fill the void on assisting local officials with stops.
Empathizing with local officials, he wrote: “As a former deputy I found myself on the other end of the radio hoping to contact USBP to assist me with a vehicle full of undocumented foreign nationals on the side of the road.”
And in an unusual plea, he urged the recipients of his memo to contact elected officials about the change. “I would encourage you, if you have found USBP assistance valuable in the past, to contact your political representatives and voice your concerns,” Green wrote.
Texas bears the brunt of the closures, losing five out of the total of nine stations to be closed. Of course. This administration hates Texas and the feeling grows more mutual by the day.
This is going to be my incendiary comment of the day/week/month/year:
The antebellum South should have lost, deserved to lose, needed to lose, but having said that, it really should have split in 1850 vice 1860 if it was going to accomplish its aims. This is because there reaches a tipping point where things really just become nigh impossible to accomplish. Thus, by trying to make things work for the greatest win as long as possible, the South ended up ( by its definition), with only eventual complete loss. In other words, in great events, you do not always get a chance to redeem lost moments. Or, as is said by Shakespeare, there is a tide in the affairs of men.
I genuinely believe one portion of one side of the great American debates is resolute in its determination to remake America by its own lights. I submit only as great a determination will prevent. The window of being able to not act may be drawing to a close. I don’t know for sure.
The trouble being, that the time when certitude is available may be past the time of recovery. And then…
Being even more blunt–if the supposedly monolithic Hispanic community, at its current rate of growth augmented by amnesties sure to occur unless combatted, embraces Latin American politics, we are done as the America that was. In addition, based on current trends, I see no reason why “white” Americans are eventually not going to end up with de facto second-class citizenship do to concepts of political correctness, for I see nothing in the talk of black or Hispanic leaders of the Left that would not make me think so, should they get majority power.
As I would not be a member of the Master Race, neither will I be sent to a citizenal equivalent of the Warsaw Ghetto.
due, not do.
I have a good friend who is Hispanic (I’m a gringo) and I’m on first name basis with her sons. One of them told me what an acquaintance said when news came out months ago that non-Hispanic whites would become a minority. This acquaintance basically said now it’s their turn (as in “gringos, look out”).
This joke of a President has, along with the race-baiting Als and Jesses, have created a gulf among races that may never be closed. Perhaps whites should join together, forget about Democrat/Republican ideals, and provide full time support to abortion. After all, even though liberals won’t admit it, they are doing what they can to reduce those they feel are part of the undesirable groups – why else put so many abortion clinics in poor and minority neighborhoods.
Texas says NO to obamacare so obama,removes its border control stations.
Come on people, think ‘outside the box’. Instead of shipping all of them back across the border, why not provide each and every one of them picked up in Arizona and Texas with a one way bus ticket to ‘the Hamptons’ and all of the bedroom communities around Washington D.C. Let’s allow ‘our rulers’ to deal with the problems first hand. Say it’s ‘for the children’ and educate a few million of them at the Sidwell Friends’ School because they deserve the best.
One might observe that this nation is fast being destroyed by this Administration. Citizens are made subservient to invaders, corrupt politicians and bureaucrats. Drugs and human trafficking are facilitated. The “Chicago way” (I’m from Chicago and all too conversant with it) rules.
The invaders and their enablers will inherit the anarchy! The Administration and their favored invaders may rue the day, if and when they “Win.” Chicago/Illinois today provides an early reflection of their paradise.
I’ve spent two years all over Latin America. I speak Port. and Span. By American standards, it is a sh-thole. It’s like that because of the people who live in it, not because of circumstances, bad luck, imperialism, racism, colonialism or any other excuses or blame. They have had a free had in their own affairs for longer than America has existed.
In the context of their own cultures, they are nice people, fine people – I had great times. In our context, they have no love of democracy, they don’t care about a Bill of Rights, they’re not Jeffersonians, they don’t write Federalist Papers, they don’t excel, they don’t invent, they don’t care about the greater good, they don’t endow libraries, they don’t bring anything to the larger fabric of American life we didn’t already have and in spades.
Latin America is so far from our own exceptionalism it is a gulf that is uncrossable and history and current events bears it out. The sole engines that power all this immigration are political correctness, and cries of racism. Liberals have a faith in the Third World that exists no where in reality. I could tell you a thousand stories that would curl your hair but which are so common in Latin America you don’t even notice them after awhile. This sort of immigration will not bring America into a bright new future but destroy it in detail, in a long, slow, agonizing process.
Ted (“Friend of the Soviets”) Kennedy wrote our immigration policy with the same motivation that the British Labour party had for theirs — to replace the electorate with one more comfortable with corruption and tyranny.
Probably really irritates you that the world’s richest man is a Mexican.
If you mean to imply that Fail Burton has an irrational dislike of Mexicans, I think you’re wrong. He has made an observation that is nothing more than a confirmation of Latin America’s past (which a cursory glance through any history book would tell you). The Latin American countries never really shook off the favoritism, corruption and cronyism of Spanish colonialism, they just gave it a local face. America was founded on ideals- the Latin American countries were not. It may seem all back in the dim, distant past, but the cultural and legal differences of that fact still echo to this day.
Kinda putting the cart before the horse aren’t ya there Bobdog? What’s the argument? I’m a racist who likes to hang out with non-whites? Some of my best friends are Latin American countries? Know your enemy? I learn these languages out of spite? I doubt you’ll ever meet a man who’s been to more backend of nowhere places than I have been in Latin America. And I loved it, every minute of it. One gets used to endemic stomach ailments and 19th century modes of transportation and just goes with the flow.
Plotinus wrote over two thousand years ago – “To any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what is to be seen.”
And that’s my motto. I do not see things through an eye of preconceptions of hatred or disdain. Neither do I see things better than they are – that’s just a flip side of stupid political correctness. Google “civil war bridges,” and realize those men built hundreds of bridges in the mid-19th century and in a matter of days.
Now Google the “Flying men of Yungas valley.” The difference is stark – extrapolate it out times 100,000. I don’t ask or know why, I don’t care really. Success and failure doesn’t need volumes of explanations, excuses or blame – it’s there or it’s not. If I see a guy standing in my bedroom at midnight with a gun I don’t start wondering about his past, his problems, why, or how.
That bedroom is America. I’m not interested in why, or how or who caused a lack of aerospace industries in Chile or string theory in Brazil – I only know it is. The last time I was in Rio, the home of the Olympics and World Cup, they were using frickin’ messy paste pots and a stick to seal envelopes at post offices in upscale Copacabana no one in America has seen since the early ’60s. Rio, like virtually the entirety of the Third World’s even marginally urban areas, is a warren of walls with broken bottles set in cement atop walls and cleverly placed barbed wire to circumvent every single possible entrance for a thief. It is so commonplace I don’t even see it anymore.
The problem is that people so crazy to see the new immigrants same as the old immigrants have largely never seen the Third World – not really. Most travelers spend a few days or couple of weeks, don’t speak the lingo, are stuck in places where English is spoken and never really see these places.
Downtown Cairo at night is like Blade Runner and the high rise have elevators I could sell as antiques on Ebay. You’d better start reading Victor Davis Hanson and his first hand reports on the front line of the new Third World. I’m telling you OWS-style shanty towns are on the way. Once these new Americans figure it out, and I’m surprised they haven’t yet, they’ll occupy land, go on hunger strikes, get the ACLU and NAACP and La Raza in, lawyers, start talking about poverty and sewers and get the media on board and that’ll be that.
Rio, one of the more enlightened cities in Latin America, has almost 800 shanties. They are built in OWS style. They simply come in, ignore law and do what they please and have done so for decades. 15 years ago city workers were killed in an avalanche of shanty town garbage in Rio. It was years old, simply tossed there. An attempt to clean this mountain proved deadly. And you will hear gunshots every single night from these shanties. Carioca’s are cowed, have been for years.
It doesn’t irritate me a Mexican is rich any more than balls or strikes irritates an umpire.
Last time I heard, white people still made up approximately 72% of the electorate. If Dear Leader wants the 16% hispanic (and already has the 12% black) which would give him 28% right out of the gate, why do the republicans just make it a priority to gain 60% of the white vote therefore establishing a majority. Yes, I know there are ultra-dumbass white people out there, we know them as democrats, but, and I feel like I’m trapped with Mel Gibson imploring the Earl of Bruce that he (and everyone else) would follow the earl if he would just LEAD them….Its cheesy as hell, but its also true.
If there is not a republican that takes up this issue and crusades with it, then I say to hell with the republicans. Reps Issa, Gowdy, West (just to name a few) here’s your chance to endear yourselves to the masses. Closing these 9 border patrol stations was akin to declaring war on the American people by the obama administration and will not be tolerated.
Maybe it’s an outgrowth of the Afghanistan struggle — fewer boots on the ground for them to run into, but they’re about to get blown up by drones.
One of these border patrol stations is near me. I didn’t even know we had one here- my town is not particularly close to the (Canadian) border but it’s in a border state. Frankly, I don’t think closing it will be a big loss.
What I would really like is for them to staff the border crossings 24 hours a day. If you don’t get through in some border towns by 8 pm, it’s a damn LOOONG detour to the Sweetgrass crossing…… For us law-abiding citizens it’d really be nice to get where we’re going with a minimum of fuss.
Did they move Amarillo? A border crossing station – in Amarillo?? Do they expect border crossers to voluntarily travel to the panhandle of Texas to show their papers??? LOL What a country!
All of the stations I see listed are not border crossing stations. Some are several hundred miles from the border. This is cutting government waste. Border Patrol agents should be securing the border, not 500 miles away in Amarillo.
The thanks we (Americans) get for allowing all the illegal immigration from Mexico and the remittances (over a billion dollars per year sent to Mexico), the $4 billion in “earned income credit” given to children in Mexico, remove the checkpoints. Then Mexico Interjet (Mexico airline) orders 20 Sukhoi Super Jet 100 (SSJ-100) from Russia. I live in Arizona and have had enough.
The story is screwed up. The Border Patrol has (had?) stations a distance back from the border where they would inspect traffic on major highway routes. Vermont had one on I -91 and California had several on I-10. Texas, NM and Arizona had ones as well.
It was a defense in depth concept to keep illegals from moving very far inland. (You will also see Border Patrol checks at airports in or near border towns like Brownsville TX).