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Ariz. Sheriff: Border Patrol Told Not to Make Arrests

Border patrol commander vigorously denies rumor

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 1, 2011 8:07 AM CDT

(Newser) – Are US Border Patrol agents intentionally avoiding arresting illegal immigrants on orders from higher-ups? That’s the rumor being spread by Arizona sheriff Larry Denver, who tells Fox News that he heard it from a top Border Patrol official. “The senior supervisor agent is telling me about how their mission is now to scare people back,” Denver said. “He said, ‘I had to go back to my guys and tell them not to catch anybody, that their job is to chase people away.’”

Denver is set to testify as much under oath before the Senate Homeland Security committee next month. But one US Customs and Border Protection commander says Denver’s claims are “unequivocally false,” adding, “I took an oath that I take very seriously, and I find it insulting that anyone, especially a fellow law enforcement office, would imply that we would put the protection of the American public … in danger just for a numbers game.”

A US Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols along the Arizona-Mexico border wall Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 in Hereford, Ariz.
A US Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols along the Arizona-Mexico border wall Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 in Hereford, Ariz.   (AP Photo/Matt York)
A lone US Border Patrol vehicle sits out in the rugged desert, as teams of border officers comb through the Arizona desert about 10 miles north of Mexico.
A lone US Border Patrol vehicle sits out in the rugged desert, as teams of border officers comb through the Arizona desert about 10 miles north of Mexico.   (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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DaveFrancis
Apr 1, 2011 2:42 PM CDT
STOP THE ROT, GREED AND CORRUPTION America cannot go on with illegal aliens running the roost, with ICE unable to get this occupation under control. They just don't have the manpower or the inducement from the leaders in Washington. Their hands are tied by the Leftist progressives, known better as administration czars. Nor can the Republicans remain ignorant; as they have been behind pushing for cheap labor for 30 years plus, that have now resulted in a kind of arrogance to circumvent the Rule of Law. Enter the Tea Party that is no longer a small unorganized congregation of people that the Liberal-Democrats want you to think. Thousands of groups are springing up across the country, to stop this country’s financial erosion, lead by the TEA PARTY. AS ONE AMERICAN PEOPLE UNITED WE DECIDE OUR FUTURE, NOT THE SPINELESS, RELUCTANT LAWMAKERS WHO LIMIT OUR RIGHTS AS CITIZENS AND LEGAL RESIDENTS. THE US GOVERNMENT HAS RENEGED ON KEEPING US SAFE FROM THE INFLUX OF CRIMINALS, BUT ALSO HAVE USED THE IRS IN PAYING FOR THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION INVASION. The resounding motto of the TEA PARTY is resolute, Fiscal Responsibility, Limited Government, Fair Free Market and a Strong National Security. For our security we must eradicate the Liberal ideology of Political Correctness, a well spring of multiculturalism, multi-language, wide open border that is twisting our countries laws. The US government is full of copious, over-manned agencies and many could be absorbed in one agency. A good start would be dismantling the bureaucratic Dept of Education and return it to School districts and parents. Their main interest in border control, is building the double layer security fence, guarded in watchtowers by either 5000 National Guard troops or the US military.Leftist advocates say that building a barrier between us and an oppressesed people is too expensive. Yet if we could seal the borders cross examine tourists with one way airline tickets, the dollars saved would be astronomical. Far outweighing the dollar amount to support those who come here illegally. the Large corporate business will continue the fight against this, even though they brought this upon themselves by exporting hundreds of thousands of jobs abroad and importing cheap labor, instead of training their own countryman. YES! to top margins of scientists and engineers. NO! to the poor, uneducated who will become a taxpayers payout. One of the determining things stressed by the TEA PARTY is national security and this doesn't seem to be a priority, that’s why hundreds or perhaps even more middle Eastern from unfriendly countries have been smuggled into the US. Just like the Unions using threats to intimidate business in Wisconsin that spreading, taxpayers should boycott business or any entity hiring illegal workers; even blowing the whistle, so that dirty business gets audited. Say—NO—to any form, any secret or covert amnesties, Dream Acts, Chain Migration, Sanctuary Cities or the reprehensible Comprehensive Immigration reform that has dire financial consequence. The Tea PARTY and its propagating millions should be adamant to lawmakers, which E-Verify, Secure Communities and the 287 g policing action must be nationwide mandated. That covers a wide spectrum of issues that will illustrate Americans mean business; that has no intentions of compromising against the $100 billion in your dollars, to be cut from the US Treasury deficit As yet we have a negative government fighting over the US budget, which amplifies the massive spending spree that the liberals have always promoted. It's obvious that these people have no conception of what they have propelled into this great land. The immigrants of old didn't scream and shout demanding welfare, unemployment benefits, health care, education, and Section 8 housing, food stamps, Wicca, Medicaid, or cash payments. Has any taxpayer thought about the hundreds of billions of dollars that goes out to support foothold babies? Not just the hospital deliveries, but until they reach their 18 birthday, with the rest of the family gripping onto every dollar received. They made their way here without any help and survived, bring America to a pinnacle of prosperity. The new illegal newcomers are destroying America from their demands and that is what the TEA PARTY is going to grind to a halt. Our country is on the slippery slope of bankruptcy. My recommendation to all taxpayers is fill the ranks of the TEA PARTY, that even certain politicians are absconding. The TEA PARTY is the cement that is not going away and it’s turning into a real revolution against both parties that has determined our future for too long. Fight back or we keep adding to the 14 Trillion US treasury deficit. ATTN: DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT: Stop the inexcusable trade deficits with China and other cheap labor countries.
junpmd
Apr 1, 2011 2:30 PM CDT
RockyPneumonia- Why do you never answer with facts my statements? because you can never disprove my facts.All you can do is name calling. You should knokw that we don't need ANYMORE CAREER CORUPT,INCOMPETENT,TAX CHEATING POLITICIANS ON BOTH PARTIES BECAUSE WE ARE VERY NERAR THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTRY MILITARILY,ECONOMICALLY AND CULTURALLY. WE ARE BANKRUPT AND THEY ARE CONTINUING MASSIVE SPENDING ,DEBT OF $ 14 TRILLION DOLLARS.OUR CORRUPT,INCOMPETNT OBAMA CIVILIAN GOV'T AND CONGRESS ARE PARALYED TO DO ANYTHING SO THEY ARE OBSOLETE AT THIS TIME. THEY BONLY THINK ABOUT THEIR ELECTION AND DON'T CARE ANYMORE ABOUT THE MIILLIONS OF JOBLESS AMERIVACAMNS. THE GOV'T CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT ANYMORE AND WILL IRREVERSIBLY DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.ONLY THE US MILITARY CAN SAVE US AT THIS POINT IN TIME BY A PEACFUL AND TEMPORARY TAKOVER OF THE INCOMPETENT ,CORRUPT CIVILIAN OBAMA GOVTR AND CONGRESS.
junpmd
Apr 1, 2011 11:30 AM CDT
Obama once again has proven that Obama is pro-islamic trojan horse.pro-illegal aliens,anti-American,a total incompetent idiot economically,militarily,intellectually. Obama is helping his felow islamic terrorists everywhere in the world but especially giving his islamic brothers at Gitmo, some were the masterminds of 9/11 to give a better chance of being freed by civilian court. Obama is defending the islamic terrorists/Al-Qaeda in Libya for ? " humanitarian reasons" while suing Arizona for trying to protect the American citizens by securing the border because of the daily massacre of thousands of Mexican innocent civilian and some innocent American citizens in the border by the drug cartels and human smuggling and kidnapping cartels of Mexico. This is has been going on for 4 years.How could Obama be so indifferent to massacres of American citizens and Mexican citizens right across our border which should be a national security issue.Obama would easily help any of his islamic terrorist brothers. Tell me one single American value that Obama has. Obama is destroying our country from within. The real economic numbers are disastrous and the US Military is being weakened and destroyed by Obama so that Obama's well-organized and well-financed private army is now stronger. This private army is composed of the public unions, elite,corrupt,anti-America career politicians stealing taxpayers money and not even paying income taxes,illegal aliens,ACORN,hundreds of Soros-Obama community organizations,welfare recipients,islamic muslim brotherhood,teachers and public employees, youth socialist movements. To understand why Obama is an islamic trojan horse we begin with Obama 's father being a corupt,alcoholic black African muslim from Kenya,his Indonesian muslim stepfather, Obama 's communist,socialist mother and grandparents,Obama attending in his formative years an islamic maddrassa school in Indonesia. Obama is associating with anti-American racist for 20 years Rev. Wright , Farrakhan , Rezko and Bill Ayers and wife who are domestic terrorists, bowing to Saudi Arabia muslim King. Going first to Cairo and Germany after his election and interviewed first by the islamic newspaper Al-Jazeera. Wrote in his own book and own words " I will stand with the muslims". Think about Obama spending millions of dollars to his lawyers even during the democratic presidential primaries to seal his non-existent Hawaii Birth Certificate-long form and Harvard Law School academic records despite graduating magna cum laude. Only a pathological liar,islamic trojan horse, anti-American, Obama with his inherited intellectual inferiority gene and incompetence in governing a nation from all black African muslim leaders, Obama 's Kenyan biological father and all African people. Obama would not do these things if Obama is a real patriotic,competent ,smart American . Obama would even proudly release these documents to bolster his presidential chances and should be proud as a Harvard educated natural born American citizen. Why not just release Obama's Birth Certificate if Obama has nothing to hide to end the controversy right away. This is very puzzling. We know that we have a lot of fake M.D.s practicing in the US with fake documents. Only Obama is capable of p[erforming this corrupt,Chicago mob style manuever and pathological lying.

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