February 03, 2006
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An American law enforcement officer and news crew in Texas have witnessed another armed incursion into the United States by men dressed in Mexican army attire, the second such incident in just two weeks...
...The incursion was witnessed by a KFOX news crew and Hudspeth County deputy, photos of which are posted on the affiliate's website.
The deputy and news crew were on the scene Tuesday night to film a segment about last week's incursion, when the law officer noticed more "soldiers" emerge from a clearing on the U.S. side of the border.
As the deputy and news crew watched, three soldiers emerged into the clearing before one hurried back into the concealment of brush, KFOX reported. But the deputy pointed out other, larger groups of soldiers engaged in a flanking action against him and the news crew, most probably, the deputy believes, in an attempt to figure out what they were doing...
And:
In the past few days, Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department deputies and their families have received threats to stay off the Rio Grande. Sheriff Arvin West told ABC-7 Thursday morning, before departing for Houston that the Mexican military is behind all of this.
Sheriff West said, "There is no doubt in my mind -- from the first time going back to a couple of years ago and every time in between --- it's the Mexican military. In a nutshell, everybody's been trying to tell everybody that they were here...they've been here ...[and] they come here quite often, regularly."
But... they're just good-hearted soldiers, trying to put food on the table. Family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River.
Posted to Immigration at February 3, 2006 04:04 AM
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What I want to know is...What's so Grande about the Rio Grande? Anyone who has seen it knows that along most of its length it hardly deserves to be called a river.
Posted by: eh at February 3, 2006 09:43 AM
I have been a tax attorney for 10 years now and have often wondered why Bush was not more active in stopping illegal immigration. One argument that is not often talked about is corruption and big business.
For example, under the current tax laws, an employer is “itself” required to withhold on wages for income taxes (and generally for social security, etc.) and pay such to the government. If between 40 and 60 percent of illegal immigrants are paid under the table (and kept off the books), then these businesses are in fact committing tax crimes / fraud by underwithholding taxes owed by it to the government. Furthermore, these businesses must then cook their books in order to account for these “expenses.” I wonder how many businesses in Texas and elsewhere are actively involved in cooking their books and committing fraud?
There is another disturbing part of this practice that was brought to my attention some years back by my wife who was very active in the insurance business. Namely, there are numerous citizens that are being denied benefits, such as health care, while illegal immigrants are receiving such benefits. Basically, if you are a poor citizen, but not poor enough to qualify for “aid,” then you go uninsured and risk becoming sick or getting hurt at your own expense. However, these same rules do not apply to illegal immigrants. For illegals, the benefits are still provided. This to me seems unusually cruel as our tax dollars are not helping our own citizens, but those that break the law.
Finally, if we really want to stop our kids from using drugs, or make it harder, let us lock up these borders. It is not acceptable that drugs are being so easily smuggled across our southern border in underground tunnels, trucks, etc. And not to mention that the Mexican military might be providing.
Posted by: Shawn (a Concerned Citizen) at February 3, 2006 09:48 AM
What is obviously needed is "milion-citizen" march on DC to scare the hell out of the Congress. Bush is indifferent to the concernsof the citizenry because he is a lame duck. Why has this march not happened? My guess is that the anti-illegal immigration groups are fearful that a handful of neo-nazis will show up waving swatiska flags and the rotten MSM will focus on them. And, of course, they will show up because anti-American groups like the SPLC will recruit them for the occasion.
Posted by: perroazul del norte at February 3, 2006 12:06 PM
"Basically, if you are a poor citizen, but not poor enough to qualify for “aid,” then you go uninsured and risk becoming sick or getting hurt at your own expense. However, these same rules do not apply to illegal immigrants. For illegals, the benefits are still provided. This to me seems unusually cruel as our tax dollars are not helping our own citizens, but those that break the law."
Exactly! I have a friend in her early 30's. I'm not saying that I think that all of her financial decisions were perfect (whose are?)- they weren't - but she and a friend ran a second hand book store for many years while she pursued her college degree. The store failed, she was left with more of the bills etc than she should have been, and the jobs that she could get later were not full time and/or well paying. She didn't have health insurance and at one point she or one of her children needed medical attention at a hospital that amounted to around $3-4,000.
First of all, she had no way to negoiate with the hospital as our insurance companies would so she paid top dollar for everything - probably more than almost any other type of person would be charged. The hospital wouldn't even discuss a lower bill for services and supplies. Second, she was pursued unmercifully for payment, which she and I both admit she owed. She had her checking account "raided" periodically so that she would have several hundred dollars in it for rent, car insurance, etc and suddenly discover that it was all gone as a result of the hospital's judgement against her. She had a regular address, paid taxes, her kids were in the local school, she held several jobs, often more than one at a time, and was known in the community so that they knew exactly where to find her.
Most hospitals don't even attempt to collect from illegal immigrants: they move often, don't give their correct address or name, may not use banks for money transactions, and can disappear in a flash if pursued. And the law says that hospitals can't refuse treatment, whether patients can pay or not and whether they think they can collect or not.
My friend was urged to declare bankruptcy, but she declined. The amount of money she owed wasn't worth the stigma in her opinion. She finally got the hospital paid off.
This is a pathetic system.
Posted by: D Flinchum at February 3, 2006 02:05 PM
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Skip
Posted by: Skip/Old Yeller at February 3, 2006 02:22 PM
"One argument that is not often talked about is corruption and big business." Also not talked about is the effect of the cash economy, another rampant form of fraud. In CA the Tax Board admits a shortfall of $6 billion per year just from the cash economy. The real and lasting result of all this is a loss of respect for all law by all of us. "Why should we obey the law when they don't?"
But the added people and the runup of housing prices keeps property tax revenue high. That's why CA likes it--tax revenue from people who won't fight back.
Posted by: Pat at February 3, 2006 04:12 PM
These incursions (incursion is PC-Speak for armed invasions) will continue. President Bush and the Republican leadership have, for some reason, made it clear that they are committed to an open borders/mass amnesty policy (which is PC-Speak for encouraging illegal aliens and then granting them residency and eventually citizenship). Why? I have not been able to find out why. I personally have watched Border Patrol agents sit in their trucks and watch illegals cross our border and do nothing. Nothing! A few Minutemen proved that illegal immigration can be stopped. But, the Minutemen had to spot the illegals and report them to the Border Patrol before the Border Patrol would do anything. Apparently, hundreds of more agents, helicopters, sensors, and all their technology was no help in the Border Patrol spotting illegals entering.
Posted by: LomaAlta at February 4, 2006 12:08 AM
It should be pretty near obvious to everyone by now that Bush and his cronies are for One World rule by transnational corporations with an Imperial US military acting as the enforcement arm. Maybe they think this is part of the Inevitable Onward March of History. If the Dems are opposed to this plan they have failed to make it very clear. BTW, the Bush gang has consistently used its muscle to get the Europeans to commit suicide by admitting Turkey into the EU .
Posted by: perroazul del norte at February 4, 2006 07:02 AM
Is the first major Democrat testing the waters?
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/3/105302.shtml?s=et&promo_code=1ABE-1
If the dems put forward a tough (although phony as last year's bird nest) border/illegal immmigration policy, then President Bush and the Republicans will be aced out of the most significant anti-terrorist issue. Does Diane Feinstein read the American people better than the President?
Posted by: LomaAlta at February 4, 2006 08:49 AM
It is truly amazing that everyday this administration talks up how it is securing America and protecting the America people. Where is that? Over in Iraq? How can they say this when this border remains as open as it is and anyone, including the Mexican army can just walk in here any old time they want. And while they talk against illegal drugs and most of it is coming in from our southern border, mainly from Mexico. Why do they not address these obvious problems?
Posted by: DG at February 5, 2006 11:28 PM
