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Title: Border Weekend
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Published: Dec 18, 2006
Author: 82Marine89
Post Date: 2006-12-18 20:31:39 by 82Marine89
Ping List: *The Border*
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On Friday night, there was only one other guy there, so we decided to fire up the truck and do some sight seeing at night. We drove past some known pick-up points and lo and behold, we come across a group of twenty future democrat voters. A call to the Border Patrol ensured that they would get to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones.
From there, we went to another known crossing area and set up an observation post. The air was crisp, the sky was clear, and the temperature had a pucker factor of 8. Heard lots of noises, but the cold got the best of us and we went to the Indian casino for their buffet and to have a few beers.
Saturday morning two more showed up, our radio operator, a very sweet 72 y/o women that makes our safety in the field better due to her knowledge of coding coordinates and her ability to handle numerous teams in the field and get reports to the BP as required and another search member. Since it is the holiday season, this was our weekend crew.
We left at 0800 to cover the BP shift change and were able to send another 22 home for the holidays. The coyotes know when the BP changes shifts and that is when they make their moves. What screws up their day is civilians trying to do the job that our government won't do. As soon as we popped two groups, our radio operator notified the BP and was able to give some overtime to a few BP agents.
Around 1100, we were hiking some canyons, looking for signs of crossings, and we came across this steep mountainside with something on it. (look for a horizontal white bar at the top, middle of the ridge line)
After viewing it through binoculars, we realized it was a monument marker. The border between the USA and Mexico.
Being former Marines, the three of us decide to check it out. We climbed the face of that mountain in about 30 minutes to go take our photos with it.
It was fun getting there, but once we got there, we didn't feel like going down the way we came up. Instead, we took a 45 minute stroll through Mexico and walked to the end of the ridge line and came down the easy way. The rest of our day was spent driving along the border checking out high points that could be used for observation posts.
We came across another monument marker. Didn't hike to this one. 
We awoke this morning to 33° temperatures and rain. It rained all night long and kept waking us up about once an hour. Below is a picture of the rain/fog and a picture of the building we operate out of and sleep in. 
We spent today driving around checking out observation sites we want to use starting next year. Providing there is no amnesty.
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#1. To: 82Marine89 (#0)
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I support amnesty and look forward to seeing it enacted into law this next year. I would also point out that having been banned by Sally from el pee merely for posting an article from a decades old paper from an organization run by Bob Avakian on May Day concerning the Minutemen, I am always willing to engage in lively discussion on the issue, but I am very set on my opinion on about this.
How can you support amnesty? Don't you believe in protecting the sovereignty of this great Nation?
I do support pay to play measure though, we all should have a common language, and if people stay they really need to learn and use English. I believe in strengthening measures to aid in advancing assimilation, but if they want to stay, let them.
I tend to agree with you on amnesty also. The recent immigrants were invited here in a de facto basis. That is, though they came here illegally the government knew they were doing it and greased the wheels for them to do it. And since they are here they've put down roots. It would be wrong to make them leave. We have an obligation to let them stay. Regarding whether they're a threat to our sovereignty - the Republicans are a far greater threat to our sovereignty than the 'illegal' aliens are. and the Minutemen support the republicans.
I tend to agree that we "de facto" grease the wheels that permit them to live and work here. One of the guys recently deported from the Meat Packing Company raids at Cactus, Texas had worked at the plant for 18 years. The illegal problem in this country has been ordained by the Catholic Church and our criminal politicians. It can only be stopped at the border, not by rounding up illegals after they're here. This is a ruse. The Govt. is using the Mexicans to train for deporting us, enemy combatants. Migrants need to be screened and follow the law. Rounding them up by raiding different facilities with 300 ninja warriors toting machine guns under the direction of Homeland Security using Gestapo tactics is toxic, and a preview of our future. Employers and landlords need to be heavily fined, and have their operations shut down when caught and convicted of hiring or housing illegals. Then the illegals will return home and tell their families and friends that the party is over and put an end to the extremely unnecessary expense of rounding them up.
that is my point. it is unjust to just throw them all out. the guy was possibly more american than mexican. a lot of them have kids that speak english only. and the minutemen want to throw them out, but the minutemen support the politicians who invited them. the solution is to do what reagan wanted in 1986 and that his own party wouldn't support him on. that is to 1 have an amnesty and 2 require the employers to confirm that all new hires are legal and thenpenalize the hell out of the employers who don't comply. and to do as Ferret said encourage english encourage assimilation. the republicans have this department of education where they control the schools and the schools are discouraging assimilation and english. it'll do a lot more good to throw out the republicans than to throw out the illegal aliens. the illegal aliens pay taxes all the republicans do is squander money and start wars.
This is a letter I drafted for a local social worker/family guidance counselor related to the recent arrests and deportations. Looking at recent events conducted in the State of Texas gave me pause to consider what we as a people really stand for besides temporary satisfaction at the expense of those in need of "frienship". Origin of the Name Texas - The Caddo Indians of eastern Texas called their group of tribes the "Tejas," meaning "those who are friends". State Nickname - The Lone Star State State Motto - Friendship Everytime I cross the State line I witness signage posted that portends this State extends friendship to everyone entering it. However, it seems that we have forgotten our roots and developed a silent form of unfriendliness that is operated either by State or Federal Agents acting as law enforcement. The recent raids at Swift Meat Packing Plants, one of which is located at Cactus, Texas, were conducted by Federal Government agents working for I.C.E. under the guidance of Homeland Security, and there was nothing friendly in the manner it was handled. This isn't the first time the Federal Government has over-reacted to a minor problem with monolithic force that truly injures the reputation of the people of Texas. A similar occurrence tarnished Texas' good name a few years ago when 115 federal troops (ATF) arrived in black ski-masks, kevlar vests, brandishing machine guns and finally wound up killing nearly 100 of our neighbors, while they claimed to be looking for one man that frequented the nearby town of Waco Texas on a regular basis and jogged on the county roads frequently. It would appear that there was a better way, a friendlier way to accomplish the task at hand than a full military assault. Again, we Texans have witnessed the invasion of a military styled assault within our State borders conducted by the Federal Government in an obviously unfriendly over-reaction, by a monolithic attack force consisting of 300 agents, many of which were wearing black ski-masks, kevlar vests, and brandishing machine guns, meant to intimidate and frighten undocumented workers. This state of affairs is intolerable in a State that has as its State Motto ... "Friendship" ! The undocumented workers that were arrested, separated by gender and hauled off to who knows where by the federal agents were guilty of working in a packing plant, possibly possessing false I.D. that is only necessary because the federal law demands it of the employer, and some of these people are now in Juarez, Mexico while their children may be here living with friends or relatives and missing their mom's and dad's for the Christmas Holidays. Shame on us. Shame on Texas, and shame on a Federal Government that cannot seem to implement appropriate methods of conducting their operations, which in the end sallies the name of the State and its citizens. Both incidents mentioned in this writing came off like Gestapo raids. The sanctity of life ignored, no it would be better stated as being raped, by machine gun toting thugs that had spent 2 months "planning" their surprise move against the Mexican people working at Swift today, and is likely a preview of what will become standard procedure in the future to be operated against Texans, as well as other Americans, once the practice being initiated against the undocumented workers has provided the necessary experience to the agents for quelling any dissent towards the federal government. I say it's time to let the Feds know that Texas is a friendly State and they aren't welcome here if they can't conduct themselves in a more appropriate manner and share our respect and devotion to "FRIENDSHIP".
I agree with your letter and commend you over it.
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#2. To: Ferret Mike (#1)
#4. To: 82Marine89 (#2)
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
#36. To: Red Jones (#6)
I tend to agree with you on amnesty also. The recent immigrants were invited here in a de facto basis. That is, though they came here illegally the government knew they were doing it and greased the wheels for them to do it. And since they are here they've put down roots. It would be wrong to make them leave. We have an obligation to let them stay.
#38. To: noone222 (#36)
One of the guys recently deported from the Meat Packing Company raids at Cactus, Texas had worked at the plant for 18 years.
#41. To: Red Jones (#38)
that is my point. it is unjust to just throw them all out.
#53. To: noone222 (#41)
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