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Title: Bordering Chaos: A report from the birth-pangs of America's Citizen Border Patrol Militias
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URL Source: http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/679/81/
Published: Jan 14, 2007
Author: Christopher Ketcham
Post Date: 2007-01-14 12:47:16 by robin
Ping List: *The Border*
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Views: 269
Comments: 9
I camped out in April 2005 a mile north of the Mexican border, in the foothills of the Huachuca Mountains of Arizona, and heard two voices talking in the darkness. They were Minutemen, so-called after the nascent Minuteman Project, the “citizen border patrol” movement that wants to put a stop to illegal immigration. A wise old voice said, “Hell, when the government destroyed the unions in the 1980s, they destroyed all those protections that people had fought for to keep their wages fair. Mexicans ain’t got no protections at all. So the wages keep gettin’ pushed down and down. The Mexicans showed up twenty years ago and said, ‘What can we do?’ Dry-wall, the crap-end of the business, back-breaking, the worst. White dry-wallers charged $15 an hour. The Mexicans did it for $10 an hour. The next wave said, ‘We’ll do it for $7 an hour.’ Dry wall illegals today get $4 an hour.” Poster Comment: A long critique, click source for entire article. Source Link Recent related border thread: 2 Border Patrol agents face 20 years in prison (Officers prosecuted – wounded drug trafficker given full immunity in exchange for testimony)
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#1. To: robin (#0)
Interesting article. The author claims that border policy is "schitzophrenic" and then writes a similarly themes article - full of sympathy for the migrants in the beginning because Big Bad Whitey is on the border --- and then giving actual explanations of the gaming of the system at the end. We're screwed because people can't think straight.
#2. To: mirage (#1)
We're screwed because people can't think straight. That's a really accurate synopsis. All I could think to call it was a critique. However, I've been a bit confused myself. I want border security, but I realized a bit late, I don't want a wall that keeps US all in. I think the employers are the right place to target. And give the Border Patrol agents the right to do round ups. Hundreds were rounded up in San Bernardino and Riverside counties here in CA 2 years ago. Then Asa Hutchinson said, just kidding, and ordered the agents to let them all go. There were empty classrooms and lighter traffic for a couple weeks before the release order.
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Replies to Comment # 1. Interesting article. The author claims that border policy is "schitzophrenic" and then writes a similarly themes article - full of sympathy for the migrants in the beginning because Big Bad Whitey is on the border --- and then giving actual explanations of the gaming of the system at the end.
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