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To: KLP who wrote (219352)9/11/2007 7:43:26 AM
From: alanrs  Respond to of 793725
 
>Walt Edwards, who joined the Border Patrol in 1951, tells a similar story. He says: "When we caught illegal aliens on farms and ranches, the farmer or rancher would often call and complain [to officials in El Paso]. And depending on how politically connected they were, there would be political intervention. That is how we got into this mess we are in now."<

The seeds of a lot of huge problems now seem to have been planted then. Political intervention in favor of farmer and rancher constituents circumventing the immigration law. An anti semitic paranoid Nixon setting drug policy. A war being fought without the willingness to actually win it. Didn't McNamara apologies at some point for that?

Then turn the reins over to 'ex-hippies turned yuppie' (I liked that characterization) and here we are overrun by illegal immigrants, rivers of drugs, trying to fight a war with PC shackles. Oh well. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.

ARS



To: KLP who wrote (219352)9/11/2007 10:34:23 AM
From: ManyMoose  Respond to of 793725
 
That was during the 1950s when I was a kid. I knew a man who worked as a bank guard and was a retired Border Patrol agent. At the drive through in the bank where he stood he had a big display of huge machetes, knives, shivs, and weapons, every one of them taken off a wetback he arrested crossing the border illegally.


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