OBAMA’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA FOR MEXICO
BEGINS WITH ARIZONA – CALIFORNIA ALREADY SURRENDERED TO MEXICO YEARS AGO!
high cost of illegals in Arizona
Arizona’s illegal immigrant population is costing the
state’s taxpayers even more than once thought -- a whopping $2.7 billion in
2009, according to researchers at the public interest group that helped write
the state's new immigration law.
Researchers at FAIR – The Federation for American Immigration Reform -- released data exclusively to FoxNews.com that show a steady cost climb in multiple areas, including incarceration, education and health, in the last five years.
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Researchers at FAIR – The Federation for American Immigration Reform -- released data exclusively to FoxNews.com that show a steady cost climb in multiple areas, including incarceration, education and health, in the last five years.
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FROM
THE MEX-OWNED NEW YORK TIMES – MOUTHPIECE FOR LA RAZA PROPAGANDA!
Arizona Border Quiets After Gains in Security
NOGALES, Ariz. — Flying low along the Mexican
line in a Black Hawk helicopter, the United States Border Patrol officer
saw surveillance towers rising above the cactus. He saw his agents’ white and
green trucks moving among the mesquite, scouting for illegal crossers.
Far overhead, a remotely guided drone beamed
images of the terrain to an intelligence center in Tucson. Pilots cruised in
reconnaissance planes carrying radars and infrared cameras that could
distinguish a migrant with a backpack from a wild animal from many miles away.
Sabri Dikman, the patrol’s executive officer
for this region, liked what he saw — and what he did not see. If any illegal
migrants were trying to make their way into the United States, he said, the
chances were very good that agents would find and detain them.
“We know what we’re dealing with and where we
are dealing with it,” Mr. Dikman said. “In some manner we have the capacity to
observe every part of the border of Arizona.”
As Congress
debates a broad overhaul of the immigration laws, including a pathway to
citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, skeptical
lawmakers are asking if the Southwest border is secure enough to withstand any
new wave of illegal crossings that might be spurred by a legalization program,
or by new growth in the American economy.
Officers who guard the line say the border is
more secure in most places than they have ever known it. They say they are in a
strong position to hold off an illegal surge, and to show why they point to
Arizona, once the busiest and most contentious border battlefront. To the east,
in Texas, agents are still struggling to stop persistent migrants in hundreds
of miles of varying and penetrable terrain. But in Arizona, every available
measure shows steep declines in the number of people making it across, figures
that border agents say demonstrate what they can accomplish.
In Congress, many Republicans recall that an
amnesty in 1986, which was supposed to solve illegal migration, was followed by
an even larger unauthorized influx. A bipartisan group in the Senate is working
on a proposal that would require measurable gains in border security before
immigrants would be allowed to proceed onto a path to full citizenship.
But to border officials here, Congress seems
to be behind the times, failing to notice that they have already made many of
the enforcement advances that lawmakers are seeking. Since 2005, the number of
patrol agents in the Southwest has nearly doubled, to more than 18,000. Customs and
Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, has built its
air wing to more than 260 aircraft. It acquired an array of technology,
including ground sensors and aerial detection devices developed by the Defense
Department in Iraq and Afghanistan, and created a military-style command
structure with expanded intelligence operations to coordinate agents on the
ground.
While tightening the border, officials also
created a system of penalties for those who get past it, making it far more
likely that migrants who were caught would be jailed, prosecuted as criminals,
or expelled from the country far from the place where they tried to enter.
Border officers, once a beleaguered force
overwhelmed by illegal flows, have acquired a bit of swagger.
“It’s all of these things coming together
that have really given us the capability to bring the border to a level of
security that is, in my opinion, unprecedented,” said David V. Aguilar, the
agency’s commissioner, who will retire this month after 34 years on the borders.
“We haven’t seen this lack of activity in 25, 30 years,” he said.
In Arizona in 2005, more than 577,000
apprehensions were made of migrants crossing illegally, a surge that sparked a
political furor in the state. Border officials declared that they would make a
“last stand” here.
Last year in Arizona, the apprehensions (an
imperfect but still useful indicator of unauthorized flows) dropped to 126,500,
a 78 percent decline from 2005, a sharper decrease than seen elsewhere along
the border. The recession in this country and drug-trafficking violence in Mexico also contributed to
the falloff, here and along the length of the border. But in 2005, about half
of all apprehensions in the Southwest were made in Arizona. Today, it is closer
to one-third, with the largest share now shifted to Texas.
Mr. Dikman remembers the bad old days, when
the agents’ rule of thumb was to open a formal deportation only after an
illegal crosser had been caught and expelled to Mexico 18 times.
Now, Customs and Border Protection is
adjusting its strategies to the reality of greatly reduced numbers, but more
troublesome adversaries.
Jeffrey Self, the commander of the agency’s
Joint Field Command for Arizona, based in Tucson, said migrants rarely try to
cross these days without hiring a coyote, or smuggler, and those guides are
generally linked to narcotics organizations in Mexico.
“It’s pretty much all organized smuggling at
this point and it’s pretty much all controlled by the transnational criminal
organizations that operate over there,” Mr. Self said.
Border officials worry there may not be much
more they can do with enforcement alone to further reduce illegal crossings and
sharpen the focus of their operations on criminal threats, without other
changes in the immigration equation.
“If this country has a continued demand for
labor by way of our market economy,” said Mr. Aguilar, the commissioner, “you
have a baseline draw for illegal immigrants.”
He said if Washington created more legal
channels for migrants who want to come to this country primarily to work, it
could significantly cut the numbers of people trying to pass illegally, freeing
border officers to pursue traffickers and other criminals.
“Now that would be a tremendous force
multiplier,” Mr. Aguilar said. Lawmakers are considering proposals for some
form of temporary guest worker program, and also measures to give legal status
particularly to migrant farmworkers.
Officials said border gains could also be
affected if Congress imposed deep budget cuts. Last week Mr. Aguilar announced
the beginning of 14-day furloughs for his agency’s employees under the sequester.
Twin Cities
Here in Nogales, a laid-back border town that
surrounds the largest port of entry in Arizona, Border Patrol vehicles drive
freely along the dirt road along an 18-foot barrier of metal poles that divides
the American city from its Mexican twin, also called Nogales. Until recently,
agents had to keep a distance. But Leslie Lawson, the top Border Patrol agent
in Nogales, Ariz., said the barrier was an example of a small tweak that made a
big difference.
A lower fence built in the 1990s had been
covered with mats to prevent Mexicans from seeing through. Smugglers would send
people or narcotics over the fence, then hurl rocks at agents from hills on the
Mexican side while the migrants slipped away into nearby gulches. In 2011, Ms.
Lawson’s sector had more rock assaults on agents than any other in the country
— 170 in all.
Last year three miles of the old fence was
replaced with the poles, set just far enough apart to see through. Agents can
spot migrants before they approach it. Rock assaults are down 60 percent.
“Every day the smugglers will change their
tactics,” Ms. Lawson said. “They are always watching us. So we are always
changing our tactics.”
With tighter security along the line, more
undocumented foreigners are trying to come through the border station. But
recent changes have made it more difficult for smugglers to pass their clients
with forged papers. Instead, officials said, smugglers rent out valid United
States documents, and encourage their clients to make themselves look as much
as possible like the people in the photographs.
One day in late February, an elderly Mexican
woman and a Mexican farmworker were stopped at the Nogales crossing after they
presented documents that were legitimate but did not belong to them.
A sharp-eyed customs inspector at the
pedestrian walkway also singled out an 18-year-old Mexican girl who had a valid
border crossing card but also a nervous twitch. A pat-down revealed that the
teenager, Selena Andrea Perez Cruz, had stashed nearly a pound of heroin in her
bra.
Ms. Perez Cruz was turned over to federal
authorities in Arizona for narcotics prosecution. But officers were not done
with the other Mexicans either. Part of the Customs and Border Protection
strategy is to ensure that almost all migrants who are detained face a penalty
on this side before being deported — what officers call their consequence
delivery system. Commander Self said some penalty was applied to at least 90
percent of illegal migrants apprehended at the state’s border.
In a holding cell, the Mexican grandmother,
who said she had hoped to reunite with relatives in Arizona, was formally
booked. Her record would remain in federal databases after she was expelled. If
she was ever caught trying to enter the United States illegally again, she
could face felony charges and months, if not years, in prison.
Other forlorn Mexicans stopped in Arizona
were waiting to be deported through a transfer program, another one of the
consequences. They would be taken by bus three days east and expelled at Del
Rio, Tex.
Officers use the transfers “to break that
smuggling cycle, to separate the smuggled aliens from the smugglers and the
guides,” Commander Self explained.
Some migrants detained in Nogales would be
turned over, under a consequence program called Operation Streamline, for
criminal prosecution. In Yuma, which has applied the program for six years to
virtually every illegal crosser, the fast-track cases have clogged the federal
courts and drawn a host of complaints from legal rights groups.
But their impact is unmistakable. In 2005,
more than 138,000 apprehensions were recorded in Yuma. By last year, the number
had decreased to 6,500, a decline of 95 percent. Since authorities began to
apply the consequence system five years ago across the southwest border, the
numbers of deportees who try to cross again within a year has consistently
declined.
Measures of Change
One defender in Nogales of the border
agency’s progress is the mayor, Arturo Garino. He says his city has become one
of the safest in Arizona, with one murder in the past six years.
“We used to have street chases all the time,”
he said in an interview in City Hall. “Now all those things are gone, something
you don’t even hear about.” He said lawmakers in distant Washington should
concentrate on fixing the immigration system.
“I don’t care how many more Border Patrol you
have,” Mr. Garino said. “You can’t secure this border any more than it is right
now, and that is a fact. Do we want to line them up, hand in hand, all the way
to Texas?”
Beyond urban areas, however, control is
spottier. Ranchers close to the border report that they often see migrants on
their property, and they do not feel safe.
But added staff and technology have greatly
expanded what Customs and Border Protection officers call their situational
awareness. On a wall of video screens in his command center in Tucson,
Commander Self can summon aerial images of vast swaths of borderland. Thousands
of agents are patrolling in vehicles, on all-terrain vehicles and on horseback.
When incidents arise, the closest ones can be quickly dispatched.
But greater efficiency has exacted a human
toll. Migrants have been pushed ever farther toward the rock faces and remote
valleys of the border’s most deadly landscape. Migrants pay smugglers higher
fees, but with security tight, the coyotes no longer feel any obligation to
finish the job of guiding them to the United States.
According to data compiled by The Arizona
Daily Star, last year 172 bodies were found in the state’s border desert.
In late February, on a mountain flank west of
the border outpost of Sasabe, 19 migrants tried to slip past the Border
Patrol’s deployment. A rare blizzard had brought a biting freeze, frosting the
saguaro cactuses with snow. With only light jackets and plastic ponchos, the
men, from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, spent three nights in the cold while
their hired coyotes searched for an opening between agents on horseback and
surveillance planes overhead.
On the fourth morning, inside United States
territory, the men arose to discover that their guides had fled.
Utterly lost, they chose to turn back. After
another six hours wandering through cactus brush into Mexico, they happened
upon a Mexican government rescue group. The men were mute with hunger and
thirst.
After a gulp of water, Helio León Reyes, 31,
a Mexican from the state of Guerrero, began to cry. The cold, he said in
Spanish, “was too much to bear.” His feet were still stiff with cramps, and his
money was lost to the smugglers.
Mr. León said he had hoped to make it to New
York, where a brother lives. But he decided on that day that his trip to the
United States was over. He would go back to his wife and children. “This is too
complicated,” he said.
Robert Gebeloff contributed reporting from New York.
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AMERICANS
(LEGALS) HAND THEIR JOBS OVER TO ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS,
PAY FOR THE ANCHOR BABY BREEDING = 18 YEARS OF WELFARE, AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE…
but have NO vote in amnesty?
BUT THE DEMS
ARE REALLY NOT CONCERNED ABOUT AMNESTY PASSING AS OBAMA WILL CONTINUE
NON-ENFORCEMENT UNTIL THERE ARE SO MANY ILLEGALS VOTING… THEY WILL VOTE THE
HISPANDERER FOR A THIRD TERM!
AMERICANS
SAY NO TO AMNESTY!
Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
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Most Illegal
Immigrant Families Collect Welfare… ALL GET AMERICAN JOBS???
April
05, 2011
Surprise, surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most U.S.
families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on
behalf of their American-born anchor babies.
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CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA: Barack Obama,
His Criminal Banksters and the Mexican Drug Cartels
“I’m not here to punish banks!”
Barack Obama in the faces of the American People his bankster donors looted –
State of the Union Message
“Records show that four out of
Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants -
Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and
Citigroup ($358,054).”
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THE MEXICAN
FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA IS FUNDED BY BARACK OBAMA WITH AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS
AND OPERATES OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER OBAMA APPOINTEE CECILIA MUNOZ
OBAMA’S CYNICAL JOKE of HOMELAND SECURITY
(ALL
THE BELOW POSTS IN THE ABOVE)
According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s
borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even
a goal of the department.
AMNESTY: WILLIAM GHEEN (ALIPAC)
EXPOSES OBAMA’S AGENDA TO SURRENDER OUR BORDERS TO MEXICO
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES OBAMA’S AGENDA OF
ASSAULTING OUR BORDERS, AMERICANS IN JOBS HE WANTS TO FILL WITH ILLEGALS
JUDICIAL WATCH:
It proves the Obama administration is willing to go to any extent
- including gaming the courts - to continue stonewalling the full story of its
lawless release of illegal aliens. Now, with the prison floodgates being thrown
open to illegal aliens under the phony pretense of abiding by sequester cuts,
it is more important that details of this threat to the public safety be
revealed.
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