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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16172)	8/26/2007 9:34:25 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus > "The Border Patrol's job is not to stop illegal immigrants. The Border Patrol's job is not to stop narcotics. ... The Border Patrol's mission is not to stop criminals. "The Border Patrol's mission is to stop terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the country." Clearly, the Border Patrol receives its orders from the vested interests which benefit from the cheap labour and the narcotics. If it wasn't so, illegal immigration would have been stopped long ago. And of course the Border Patrol does what it is told to do by the federal government -- let the Mexican wet-backs and the drugs in, keep the terrorists (ie Muslims) out. So, I don't see Carillo as a "cool-headed, reasonable fellow who wisely attempts not to mix the two issues", as you do, I see him as someone who is doing a job and is being paid for it. And as far as "rightwing pols from the border states, under pressure from their white constituencies, [who] are eager to turn the 'border control' issue into another front of the war against terrorism...." are concerned, one can't blame them for trying to brand the Mexicans as terrorists but they are too late and they are treading on someone's corns -- only the federal government, ie Mr Chertoff, is entitled to decide who is a terrorist, and also who is not.