"Many Police Officers Disenchanted"

[unixronin]

During the last presidential campaign cycle, many national and local police organizations, as well as individual officers and commanders, supported the reelection of George W. Bush.  Commanders and rank-and-file officers understood the fact that compared to the alternatives, Bush was the right man to serve as Commander-in-Chief in wartime.

Emphasis mine.  is it just me, or does that make you think "damning with faint praise" too?

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Many Police Officers Disenchanted with President Bush on Immigration

By Jim Kouri

(AXcess News) New York - During the last presidential campaign cycle, many national and local police organizations, as well as individual officers and commanders, supported the reelection of George W. Bush.  Commanders and rank-and-file officers understood the fact that compared to the alternatives, Bush was the right man to serve as Commander-in-Chief in wartime.

For instance, the nation's largest organization, National Fraternal Order of Police -- representing over 350,000 officers -- endorsed Bush, as did many local organizations such as the New York Police Department's Police Benevolent Association, Detectives Endowment Association and others.

But now there's increasing disenchantment with President Bush on his handling of illegal immigration and border security.  More and more police agencies find themselves engulfed in crimes being committed by illegal aliens.  Mexican nationals dressed in military uniforms are coming into the United States while they protect drug and human traffickers and yet our leaders in Washington at best offer lip-service, at worst ignore the problem not wishing to alienate a perceived voting block.

"The problem has gotten worse and worse each year and the only people debating the subject [of illegal immigration] are American citizens.  The politicians -- local, state and federal -- ignore the will of the people," says one police chief who's own mayor is pro-open borders.

Let's examine a recent complaint by one law enforcement commander, who is a Mexican-American himself:

Zapatas County, TX Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez says that the Mexico-US border problem is worsening.  Sheriff Gonzalez said that Mexican troops, or those dressed in Mexican Army uniforms, continue to illegally enter the US on a regular basis.

Gonzales provides accounts of gunfire on the Mexico-US Texas border areas, which even extended into residential areas.  Gonzales said that individuals dressed in Battle Dress Uniforms (BDUs) and carrying automatic weapons are becoming a dangerous and escalating problem.

Gonzales also confirms that terrorist training camps (including those for the terror-gang MS-13) are active just South of Brownsville, TX in Mexico, something that been long believed by many police and security executives.

Yet, Sheriff Gonzales's pleas are being ignored by the mainstream news media and political leaders.  When CBS News' 60 Minutes did a story on illegal immigration, the segment, hosted by Ed Bradley, was more propaganda than information.  It was all emotion as opposed to being fact filled.  And it was pro-illegal immigration.

According to US Customs and Border Protection agents, there have been 231 such incursions since 1996, an average of more than 28 per year.  In addition, there have been cases of Middle Eastern men from terrorist-sponsoring nations gaining entry from Mexico into the US.  Illegal aliens also commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime, including murder, sex crime against children and armed robbery.

In one study of a sample 55,000 illegal immigrants serving prison sentences in the US, it was discovered that they are responsible for over 400,000 arrests and over 700,000 felony crimes.  In Los Angeles, 95 percent of the outstanding arrest warrants for homicide are for illegal aliens, with 65 percent of the overall arrest warrants are for illegals.

This is a widespread problem and will eventually lead to more crime and violence.  How can the President of the United States allow a foreign soldiers on US soil who are carrying automatic firearms?  Where are the so-called gun control advocates in congress who wish to disarm American citizens?  Are they not concerned with foreign nationals entering the country armed to the teeth?  US police departments are outgunned and outmanned and no one save a few congressmen are displaying any concern.

The above article is, I presume, the intellectual property either of Axcess News, or of the author, Jim Kouri.  If they or any representative of theirs objects to the reproduction of this article here for those unable to reach axcessnews.com, it will be removed on request, but I'd prefer to come to some agreement on reproduction rights if possible.

Comments

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

Gosh, and I'd have thought they'd be happy about all the shiny new powers they have, and the near immunity from prosecution for such quaint things as violation of citizens' civil rights.

Perhaps they're tired of chasing all the false leads the NSA vaccum-cleaner is sucking up from the PSTN? Or the madness of both DHS and TSA?

[koyote.livejournal.com]

didn't you hear?

there are no civil rights anymore. Bush did a retroactive signing statement on the Constitution stating that he would find it null and void whenever he determined it interfered with his executive powers and profits.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Shhhhhhhh!!! You might give him Karl Rove ideas.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

Can't get the link to load, but:


I'm still not sure what it was that made Mr. "Mission Accomplished", "too cool for (officers') school", "super duper pilot war veteran who didn't even show up for flight hours"

into a better "right man" in wartime than someone who, in the end analysis, was there, did the job, has salad that isn't gimmes on the bar, and actually gives a shit about soldiers' lives.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Can't argue with that.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've edited to retroactively add the entire article text, properly attributed, behind a cut.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

interesting article.

I have a lot of other suggestions for solutions- I tend to like open borders, and find that (like the drug war) arguments can be made for "attracting" or even "creating" criminal activities by criminalizing job hunting in the US.

As for warlords and militarized criminal organizations. Well, Tell Mexico to control it or we will. Last I hear, we had tanks....
(simplistic, not meant to be a realistic suggestion that a guerilla war is winnable simply with tanks alone, but relvant point is still made)

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

And not true, either. Badnarik would have been a much better choice.

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Can't argue with that either.

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

Do you know of corroboration for the claim of terrorist training camps in Mexico? I don't doubt the claim, but I'd like to see a couple other sources...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Not personally, no.