Insanity On The Border

I was having a hard time finding something worth writing about this morning, then I got my daily E-Mail from the Washington Times. For those of you that don’t know, many online editions of local and national newspapers provide free E-mail links to their news stories. I get a half dozen every day and it’s a great source of news.

One of today’s Washington Times stories is about US border patrol agents. If the story is true, some supervisors need to be fired.

“U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.

More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.

"It was clear to everyone here what was being said and why," said one veteran agent. "The apprehensions were not to increase after the Minuteman volunteers left. It was as simple as that."

Another agent said the Naco supervisors "were clear in their intention" to keep new arrests to an "absolute minimum" to offset the effect of the Minuteman vigil, adding that patrols along the border have been severely limited.””

So help me think through this process.

It’s been widely reported that our borders are basically undefended by the federal government. Millions of new illegals entering from Mexico every year—over eleven million total. This is because our politicians are too busy trying to get re-elected, arguing about judicial appointments, and funneling our hard earned tax dollars back to their favorite special interests and constituants.

As a result of the situation and in an effort to plug the holes in our porous boarder with Mexico, a group of private citizens, calling themselves The Minutemen, decided to spend the month of April defending a section of the border in Arizona—to the villification and ridicule of the leftists and “immigration activists.”

Their efforts appear to have worked.

Now high ranking employees of our Imperial Idiotic Federal Government are trying to undermine the efforts of our private citizens by telling their co-workers to not do their jobs?

For once I truly hope that this news story is incorrect.

If not, heads should roll...