In defense of the U.S. Border Patrol
The U.S. Border Patrol has been getting a bum rap from the media lately.First, we heard about the sex-craved customs inspector who let drugs through at the Blaine crossing in exchange for sex acts from a Canadian prostitute.
Then, a group of uninformed Seattle University students embarrassed their entire campus earlier this month, when they protested the university's Career Day event. Their anger stemmed from the mere presence of Border Patrol agents - who, like most of the law enforcement groups represented, were there to recruit - at a Jesuit institution. From The Spectator, SU's student newspaper:
Protesters also encouraged passing students to sign a petition against recruiters at Seattle U.You're right, Marianne. It's absolutely shocking that the university would give a legitimate government agency - an agency you and the rest of the idealistic social justice monkeys blame for doing their job effectively - the chance to give students jobs in a workforce where employment are getting harder and harder to find. It's not like the immigrants they work keep out of the country are illegal or anyth---oh wait. My bad.
“The Border Patrol should not be allowed to recruit on our campus because their tactics are responsible for thousands of deaths of migrant people trying to cross the border,” explained Lauren Ressler, freshman environmental studies major.
“The policies of the U.S. Border Patrol seem to contradict the policies of Seattle University; it’s shocking that they would be invited,” said Marianne Mork, sophomore humanities major.
Finally, in yesterday's Times, the Border Patrol is under fire yet again:
A couple of months ago, the U.S. Border Patrol began occasional "spot checks" of every vehicle and passenger arriving in Anacortes off state ferries, the lifeline between these islands and the mainland.A prime example of when rural folks with too much time on their hands let their conspiracy theories run wild. As the article points out, we're not talking Nazi Germany here; you don't have to answer any questions if you're on a domestic ferry, and Border Patrol agents have only arrested 43 people (38 of them Mexicans) in nearly two months of investigation.
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In the islands' coffee shops and the editorial pages of the local paper, then in a crowded, heated meeting last month, a number of people have complained that islanders are being unfairly treated and questioned, even though they haven't left the country and normally wouldn't be subject to such scrutiny.
Terms like "police state" are hurled around, as they say the searches are illegal, unconstitutional — and just a ruse to catch illegal immigrants and petty drug users.
While I would take issue with using the Border Patrol to make arrests for "petty drug use" - or anything that doesn't involve bringing people or products across the border illegally - the article makes no further mention of such activity other than in the sentence quoted above (unsubstantiated fear mongering, perhaps?).
The local stance on illegal immigration baffles me, when the answer to this fiery debate is simple: if you don't want to be hassled for being an illegal immigrant, then don't enter the United States illegally. And if you're an American who has problems with how we guard our borders, then do something constructive about it; immigration is an issue that has to be dealt with through an overhaul of our legal system (which is run by people we elect), not through appeals on emotional grounds. And blaming the Border Patrol is a ridiculously misguided approach to take.
"First, we heard about the sex-craved customs inspector who let drugs through at the Blaine crossing in exchange for sex acts from a Canadian prostitute."
I don't think that was a bum wrap, he was thinking with his dick, as a Mick, if I can alliterate slightly, I'm opposed to anything that involves learning to be English,
like the commie fascist homos at the Boston Globe, boot them to fuck outa town, they've only bin here since the 1600s, in Ireland that don't make a Saxon righteous. Let them tea drinking bastards live in Roxbury, go squeal baby.
Polish is the second laguage in Ireland, it is possible to get on a bus and nobody speak's English, I'll clue you in on that, the English, they tyrants,
but the language, the Saxon tongue, well, we might as well use it, so we can tell them to fuck off. There is no hypocrisy dere, reason for everything.
so what is the deal, with these Poles, they're white, they're Catholic, yea, no deal dere at all. We taught them in Chicago, it has to be union rates,
we run the town, and if they see a little windmill on a wooden-shoe's front lawn, they have to kick it over, darn dutchers.
You can house train a Pole, they'll put funny stuff on the shop shelves, but that is just kraut food at half the price.
Here is what we really have to do, there has to be a fairer way to manage immigration, and I think we maybe need to do it on whether they're cubs fans, because we can then say, get to heck back to boytown you faggots, like internal immigration for Chicago.
For the borders we could maybe do it on what people eat, we could ask folks if they ate really icky stuff, and if they said yes, we could basically say, that we were clamping down on fried wood grub or whatever if it was chow fetishing on wood grubs which was the problem. I'm not really up for that myself, fried banana or fine is fine.
'if you don't want to be hassled for being an illegal immigrant, then don't enter the United States illegally."
You don't get hassled if you're Irish, Europeans don't do so bad either,
do the POW test, get some Japs and Germans to both stick up their hands.
Even a kraut with a shit attitude is a homie.
Tazia
Tazia,
You got me on that one...sounds like the Blaine border guard kind of had it coming. "Thinking with his dick," indeed.
Well, last time I was in the GTA, I had some probs with da gangsters dude, I was caught parked without a piece, fuckin x-rays
I done like this thing on St Maarten, gotta tan, met a few girls, fazed people off about a Dutcher civil servant who will never shit again through his arse unless he comes back as a maggot
this pimp-patsy told me what I needed to know, told me to behave, then got back in his police car.
The only thing that works in an ice storm is bad luck and the bad-badge.
I got like an PhD in being nice to the NYPD choir, I know this, never assume South Park got Canada wrong, about being highly fuckin' suspect.
News just in, get in the way of cheap girl flesh imports, expect the punks not to like it too much, I'm only sorry I didn't cut the Dutcher's fuckin throat
Tazia
Immigration minister faces threats over proposed stripper protection law
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OTTAWA — Security has been tightened around Immigration Minister Diane Finley following threats related to Conservative efforts to keep foreign strippers out of Canada.