Arizona Sheriff Cites Flood of Border Agents Confirming Feds' No-Apprehension Policy

[Geee]

Fox News:

An Arizona sheriff says he has been flooded with calls and emails of support from local and federal agents who back his claims that the U.S. Border Patrol has effectively ordered them to stop apprehending illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border.

“Upper management has advised supervisors to have agents ‘turn back South’ (TBS) the illegal aliens (aka bodies) they detect attempting to unlawfully enter the country … at times you even hear supervisors order the agents over the radio to 'TBS' the aliens instead of catching them,” one San Diego border agent wrote in an email to Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever.

“This only causes more problems as the aliens, as you know, don't just go back to Mexico and give up. They keep trying, sometimes without 10 minutes in-between attempts, to cross illegally,” continued the email, which was among a number of communications to Dever reviewed by FoxNews.com. “This makes the job for agents more dangerous. Not only are the aliens more defiant, they also begin to feel like they can get away with breaking our federal laws.”

The email is one of more than 100 messages Dever said he received from active and retired Border Patrol agents and law enforcement officers from across the country. Many wrote of what they said was their own experience and first-hand knowledge of Border Patrol’s efforts to reduce apprehension numbers by making fewer arrests.

[AceRimmer]

An election is coming in a year, and Obambi's poll numbers are tanking. Simple math will tell you where he intends to get the votes the dead and mentally disabled can't give him...

[SrWoodchuck]

If we still have the basic right to petition the government for redress of grievances......now is the time & this is the problem. The US cannot insist that Arizona may not conduct immigration policy, since it is the domain of the Feds; and then abdicate their responsibility. If the federal government has legally prevented the state from protecting the life, liberty & pursuit of happiness of it's citizens, then the state should have the right under the 10th Amendment.

 

Time to sign some petitions, and insist that our government abide by it's duty, or get the hell out of the way.

[AceRimmer]

If we still have the basic right to petition the government for redress of grievances......now is the time & this is the problem. The US cannot insist that Arizona may not conduct immigration policy, since it is the domain of the Feds; and then abdicate their responsibility. If the federal government has legally prevented the state from protecting the life, liberty & pursuit of happiness of it's citizens, then the state should have the right under the 10th Amendment.

 

Time to sign some petitions, and insist that our government abide by it's duty, or get the hell out of the way.

 

If I'm one of the southern border governers, I'd start with a 200 yard minefield of claymores and bouncing betties, backed by a platoon of Nat'l Guard troops in Bradleys over the open spaces. If Obambi has a problem with that, let him, Eric Holder, and that flake Debbie Whatever Shulz come clear the mines...