Many Police Officers Disenchanted with President Bush on Immigration
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by Jim Kouri | July 24th, 2006

 US police departments are outgunned and outmanned, while George W. Bush remains almost entirely focused upon his amnesty program. 

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, and 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 whose 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, Texas 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, Texas in Mexico, something that has 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 of 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, while 65 percent of the overall arrest warrants are for illegals.
   
This is a widespread problem and will eventually lead to even more crime and violence. How can the President of the United States allow 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.

Labels: Immigration

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). His book "Assume The Position" is available at Amazon.Com.
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Responses to "Many Police Officers Disenchanted with President Bush on Immigration"

  1. Domestically, the GOP has been the LAW&ORDER party for years. The GOP will lose that mantle forever if they follow Bush ("guest workers=indentured servants/latino slaves, etc..) down this primer on the origin of slavery. How do you start slavery? Argue we need one group of people to do work for another people we don't "want to do." Conservatives, WAKE UP!!!

    Comment by Joseph | July 24, 2006

  2. Here, near El Paso, Texas, the mighty Rio Grande river, serving as the U.S.-Mexico border, frequently dries up to a 100-foot wide riverbed. Every so often, we see television news video (yes, video evidence!) of presumed Mexican nationals — dressed in fatigues, carrying automatic weapons, and driving military-appearing vehicles — rendevous, on the Mexican side, with civilians in SUVs. Soon afterward, the SUVs casually cruise across the riverbed into the U.S. entirely unchallenged. Why? Because the local law enforcement agencies and scattered border patrol officers are ridiculously outgunned by the military-appearing folks 100 feet away in Mexico providing cover! It would be suicidal to attempt to stop those SUVs.

    As I mentioned in a previous comment, people down here are getting fed up with the blind eye that's being turned to this. There have already been close calls such that both the law enforcement escort and the journalist, while filming, were certain they were seconds away from being fired upon by the apparent Mexican police/military. The time, unfortunately, is likely near at hand that U.S. citizens will begin doing the duty that our government is ignoring… and opening fire on the intruders the instant they land on U.S. soil. And the civilians along the Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona borders, unlike local law enforcement, are not even close to being outgunned.

    When that happens, return fire from the Mexican side is probable. I wonder if Mr. Bush, or any of his potential successors, has considered how to handle such an incident when it inevitably occurs?

    Comment by Mike Morgan | July 24, 2006

  3. What thoughts on the expediency of disbanding the BATF and using the
    personnel from that agency to beef up the Border Patrol?

    Comment by Lane Russell | July 24, 2006

  4. Bush's position on immigration is nothing but treason.

    http://vdare.org/mann/050104_deportation.htm

    Comment by Liz | July 27, 2006

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