Can We Have BORDER SECURITY From the "Homeland Security = Pathway to Citizenship" DEPARTMENT of LA RAZA?

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I would argue that our borders have been, are and will be LEFT OPEN AND UNDEFENDED as the La Raza Dems face the America peoples’ CONTEMPT for their endless AMNESTY pushes.

Therefore, the LA RAZA DEMS, OBAMA, REID, FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, WAXMAN, et al, will continue to assure the status quo is maintained. The status quo being no (real) wall, no E-VERIFY, no enforcement of laws prohibiting the employment of illegals, and no funds to deal the ever expanding MEXICAN GANG AND DRUG CARTEL INCURSIONS through our OPEN and UNDEFENDED BORDERS.

Obama didn’t by accident select a LA RAZA party member JANET NAPOLITANO for the so called “HOMELAND SECURITY” now the “Homeland Security = Pathway to Citizenship” scam.

Obama will continue to perform like the excellent actor he is, while selling us out to the illegals!

One way he will do this is cut funding for the wall, and continue to move border patrol off our borders.

Things will continue as they always have since the 1986 “AMNESTY TO END AMNESTY” … open borders!

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Obama soft on illegals enforcement

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.

The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009

And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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As Border Crime Escalates, U.S. and Mexico Agree to Join Forces
The United States and Mexico are joining forces to crack down on drug smuggling and illegal immigration across their borders. Last week, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced a new partnership between U.S. Border Patrol and Mexico’s federal police aimed at securing the U.S.-Mexico border. (DHS Press Release, February 18, 2010). Napolitano and her Mexican counterpart, Genaro García Luna, signed a declaration on joint efforts to secure the border and share information about transnational threats while streamlining legitimate travel and trade. Id. “The success of our efforts to crack down on criminal organizations and others who threaten the safety of our citizens requires close collaboration between the United States and Mexico,” said Secretary Napolitano. Id. “This declaration will allow us to better protect both nations against violent drug cartels and transnational smuggling of drugs, cash and firearms while facilitating legitimate travel and trade.” Id.
The declaration outlines principles to enhance border security, including:
• Intelligence-driven operations with precise, targeted outcomes;
• Cooperation focused on increasing bilateral situational awareness of threats;
• Operations designed to deny access by criminal organizations between ports of entry;
• Enforcement that effectively prevents criminals from exploiting border entry points;
• Sufficient personnel, infrastructure and technology needed to sustain bilateral efforts.
According to DHS, Secretary Napolitano has made several trips over the past year to the Southwest border and Mexico to survey operations, coordinate with state and local law enforcement, and meet with Mexican officials—and has signed several agreements with Mexican officials to bolster cross-border cooperation to crack down on transnational criminal activity. (DHS Press Release, February 18, 2010). The unprecedented partnership is actually an expansion of an ongoing operation at the Arizona-Mexico border, in which hundreds of U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican federal police officers are training together, sharing intelligence, and coordinating patrols. (Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2010). The goal of this operation is to launch a joint attack on the northbound flow of drugs and immigrants and southbound shipments of guns and cash in the border’s busiest smuggling corridor. Id. Both countries have political stakes in the success of this effort; Obama would benefit from results on border security, while Mexican President Felipe Calderón is in desperate need of progress in his war on drug cartels.
The effort faces substantial hurdles, including violent drug mafias, long-standing Mexican reluctance to interfere with illegal immigration into the United States, and a legacy of corruption that has plagued enforcement efforts in Mexico. (Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2010). "There's so much potential for corruption. It could be destined for failure," said Jennifer Allen, executive director of the Border Action Network, a migrant advocate group in Arizona. Id. Allen also pointed out that law enforcement in Mexico has been unable compete with the money or the power of the drug trafficking networks. Id.
Mexican officers, who undergo U.S. background checks, will be trained by Border Patrol in close-quarters firearms techniques and medical rescue skills, as well as ways to detect contraband concealed in vehicles. Id. Joint U.S.-Mexican operations between Mexican federal police and American agents have included daily communication, responding to security threats, disrupting smugglers' hilltop lookouts, and breaking up rock-throwing gangs who often clash with U.S. agents. The Mexican forces have also developed new southern barriers to smuggling drugs and people. "The coordination will make our pursuits more flexible so we can stop criminals from ducking back and forth across the border," said Mexican federal police Cmdr. Armando Trevino, adding that his agency "is most ready to seal the border to put an end to this organized crime." Id. Despite this commitment to aggressively pursue smugglers, Trevino and his officers have no intention to interfere with Mexicans who are illegally crossing the border absent evidence of other criminal activity. Id.
The crackdown has been met with retaliation from smugglers over the past five months. Gunmen wounded a Border Patrol agent in December, and in November, a sniper in Mexico fired volleys at the U.S. port of entry. (Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2010). Officials suspect it was payback for the seizure of $300,000 by U.S. inspectors, and have responded with concerted scrutiny of southbound traffic and pedestrians. The checks have resulted in the seizure of $2.2 million in smuggled cash and have led inspectors to identify more than 3,000 illegal immigrants since October. Id.
The news of this joint effort to combat crime on the border is timely, as reports of drug smuggling and violence have escalated in recent months. Just last week, U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona seized more than 1,500 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $1.25 million. (KVOA News, February 18, 2010). The agents discovered the marijuana in a stolen vehicle that had been abandoned in the desert. Id. This latest seizure continues another record-breaking year for marijuana busts in the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector. (Arizona Daily Star, February 18, 2010). According to the most recent statistics, agents had seized 350,000 pounds of marijuana through the first four months of fiscal year 2010, up from 341,000 the same time the year before. Id. Furthermore, according to the annual report from the Director of National Intelligence, approximately 90% of the cocaine that reaches the U.S. from South America comes through Mexico. (February 2, 2010).
A major goal of the U.S.-Mexico partnership is to help Mexico fight violent drug cartels, which are often better funded and more heavily armed than Mexican police. Mexico has been unable to deal with the drug cartels that threaten its security, as evidenced by the marked increase in violent crimes, including murders and kidnappings in the midst of gang warfare. Earlier this month, 16 teenagers were violently gunned down at a party in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. (The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2010). And in the first 10 days of 2010, a total of 283 people are estimated to have died in drug-related violence in Mexico, which is more than double the number during the same period in 2009. (The Atlantic, February 10, 2010). It is apparent that the threat from drug mafias is now extending into the U.S. across our southern border. Last year, in a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Secretary Napolitano expressed her commitment to addressing the threat of cartel violence in Mexico as a top homeland security priority for the United States. (See Transcript of Napolitano’s Testimony, March 25, 2009). She told the panel of senators that “the cartels have fingertips that reach throughout the United States.” Id.
Calderón, elected in 2006, has essentially declared war on the drug cartels. As the influence and intimidation of the cartels on local governments has increased, the Mexican president has attempted to fight the war with national forces and agencies. But it is increasingly apparent that the corruption has moved to those national agencies, as reports of abuses by the national drug-fighting forces escalate. (The Arizona Republic, February 19, 2010). Calderón has long sought a bi-national solution to the problem of smuggling guns and cash into his country, and President Obama has already pledged to increase aid to Mexico to fight the drug trade, with $1.4 billion through the Mérida Initiative. (Las Cruces Sun-News, February 19, 2010; The Atlantic, February 10, 2010).
To date, financial assistance from America has not been highly effective in combating the lucrative business of drug smuggling. (USA Today, February 10, 2010). This groundbreaking partnership between U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican police officers presents a new approach to combating a drug trade and its violent consequences that is far from under control. Whether the U.S. can help Mexico stop drug smuggling remains to be seen, but one positive side effect of joint enforcement could be the deterrence of illegal immigration. Mexican federal police Cmdr. Armando Trevino said last week, "We are fighting a common enemy. We are going to work together like friends, like comrades, like brothers." (Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2010).