Norm Dicks, Patty Murray Have Questions About Border Patrol
Congressman Norm Dicks and Senator Patty Murray are both looking into the increased Border Patrol activity on the Olympic Peninsula.
Norm Dicks has written to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, asking her to review the bus boardings and vehicle checkpoints conducted by the Border Patrol on the Peninsula.
His letter said: “The national security value of this checkpoint strategy on public roads, inconveniencing hundreds of legitimate U.S. citizen motorists during each instance, is unclear to me and my constituents. Border Patrol agents have adopted an even more aggressive strategy of performing ad hoc traffic stops, making individual arrests. While I understand that the Border Patrol mission includes coordination with local law enforcement on border control issues, I have serious questions about the agency's direct authority to stop individual automobiles and detain, in some cases, legal residents of the United States until they are able to prove their status. I would appreciate your personal attention to the question of whether these activities are the appropriate and best use of the limited resources available to your department as it confronts the myriad of serious threats to the security of our homeland.”
And Patty Murray is reviewing information from Clallam and Jefferson County officials, to gauge public opinion on Border Patrol activities in both counties.
Norm Dicks has written to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, asking her to review the bus boardings and vehicle checkpoints conducted by the Border Patrol on the Peninsula.
His letter said: “The national security value of this checkpoint strategy on public roads, inconveniencing hundreds of legitimate U.S. citizen motorists during each instance, is unclear to me and my constituents. Border Patrol agents have adopted an even more aggressive strategy of performing ad hoc traffic stops, making individual arrests. While I understand that the Border Patrol mission includes coordination with local law enforcement on border control issues, I have serious questions about the agency's direct authority to stop individual automobiles and detain, in some cases, legal residents of the United States until they are able to prove their status. I would appreciate your personal attention to the question of whether these activities are the appropriate and best use of the limited resources available to your department as it confronts the myriad of serious threats to the security of our homeland.”
And Patty Murray is reviewing information from Clallam and Jefferson County officials, to gauge public opinion on Border Patrol activities in both counties.
Labels: Border Patrol Clallam Jefferson Counties, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Olympic Peninsula, Norm Dicks Border Patrol, Patty Murray Border Patrol
posted by Tom Harper at 2:43 PM
20 Comments:
For sale right over here at Polly's Honky Tonk Saloon and Whorehouse, for only fifty bucks we will provide you with a genuine simulated Washington state enhanced drivers license.
Good for entry here, into Canada, Mexico, and other participating partnerships in this bullshit on this stupid rock as we hurtle through space.
What a crock of shit, they come here because Americans don't want to do the work they are willing to do for the price.
Just let them come in through the gates so we can keep track of them and tax them like we are taxed. Many of them don't really want to be here anyway, they just need money to send back home.
Most of them are not terrorists, they are just people trying to get by on this planet, I've sat in bars and drank with them and I'm okay with them.
As for the few terrorists that may pass through here, they are no worry to this town, they are headed other places.
And they are such fuck ups that it's likely that they won't even get to their targets anyway.
Fear of single terrorists is bullshit, they can't do much damage. No more than that fucking idiot across the street making crap up that can wipe out a city block.
Small potatoes, just don't live on that block. My point is, it is not these minor boarder crossings that is our problem
It's those with major weapons that can really hurt us, not that we don't ask for it.
Border Patrol is protecting your own pussy, ha ha ha.
"Norm Dicks, Patty Murray Have Questions About Border Patrol"
Politicians always do.
Hey, the Olympic Peninsula hasn't had a terrorist attack since the Border Patrol started stopping and searching everybody and his grandmother. See, it's working :)
WTF is Norm Dicks talking about?
"The national security value of this checkpoint strategy on public roads, inconveniencing hundreds of legitimate U.S. citizen motorists during each instance, is unclear to me and my constituents."
The Border Patrol hasn't conducted a Checkpoint since Dicks went to Washington DC and talked to the Chief of the Border Patrol.
In true Olympic Peninsula politics form, Dicks makes some sort of statement so the noisy Port Townsend hippies don't get him in their crosshairs.
Typical, predictable, political BS.
You go Norm and Patty. Enough is enough.
If we are not crossing a border we should not be stopped and questioned by federal agents.
Yeah, enough of that protecting us, BP!! Let those poor terrorists in!
You liberals are a joke.
Says who???????????
The US Supreme Court says that they can do it.
If we are not crossing a border we should not be stopped and questioned by federal agents.
Personally, I think boarders are stupid other than lines on a map so you know where you are on this rock.
One peoples, one rock, and not a very big one at that. This tribal mentality is bullshit and causes a lot of problems.
Thanks for those words of wisdom, Billy. I feel safer already!
Maybe someday the federal government will outlaw the use of the social security number for ID purposes.
Until then- consumer safeguards should be in place - this is not the case in 2009.
No roadblock required.
The federal government follows neither the spirit or letter of the constitution.
Start taking away personal liberties to citizens and they'll get a 2 or more magnatude increase in domestic terrorism over any of the foreign types. Case in point is Timothey McVey.
What personal liberties has the federal government taken away?
And when Timothy McVey pulls up to the roadblock he will promptly answer the question about his citizenship- he may even be able to show his "enhanced" driver's license. He will be cooperative and he will be quickly on his way.
Security Theater.
What personal liberties has the federal government taken away?
Individual Responsibility, Individual Liberty, Smaller, Limited Government-
After 20 years in The US Marines- where personal freedom and self expression were voluntarily limited in order to serve the greater good...
I got my hopes up- then looked out to see Federal raids on state sanctioned medical marijuana operations, the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, The REAL ID Act of 2005, The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (there has been time to fix it), Concealed carry permits that become void when one crosses from their home state onto National Park lands (recent rule change?), Federal Suspicionless Checkpoints, etc.
Local issue- concealed carry on federal National Parks lands- click on my name above and see a page from North Cascades National Park saying guns are still illegal there. Confusing? So much for a responsible person trying to eliminate guesswork and play by the rules. Updating a web page is as easy as sending an e-mail- not so for the federal government.
Local issue- BP cited a legal Washington State medical marijuana user last summer down by the Hood Canal Bridge. The federal government does not defer to Washington State citizens on medical Marijuana- the desire to govern ourselves should count for something.
"The troops are fighting to protect our rights and freedoms" - if this is a true statement- can we now take delivery on those freedoms?
Your government in action:
A Houston Chronicle investigation revealed in November that Immigration and Customs Enforcement failed to act against 75 percent of all self-identified illegal aliens convicted of local crimes in the Houston area recently, including immigrants who had committed felonies ranging up to sexual assault of a child and even capital murder. After ICE declined to hold them, that 75 percent were simply released back into the community. Nationally, during that same approximate time period, ICE was deporting twice as many illegal aliens with clean records (clean, except for being undocumented) as those with criminal rap sheets. [Houston Chronicle, 11-16-08]
Oh yeah, we need more security. Here's something to look forward to:
London's Daily Mail reported (after an investigation under Britain's freedom of information act) that more than half of the local government councils responding admitted that they were using anti-terror laws and surveillance equipment to monitor such mundane activities as whether residents put their garbage out at the proper times for pickup. Said one prominent critic, "We are no longer living in what most would recognize as a free society." [Daily Mail, 11-1-08]
...Yeah, as most people don't actually KNOW whats in the Bill of Rights or Constitution, or how our government works...they don't understand how HomelandSecurity has changed the nation, and how we do business.
Just remember, if you do get stopped by Homeland Security (border patrol), they can detain you....for as long as they like, and suspend any need to charge you, or bring you to any sort of formal court-trial, for as long as they please.
Even if you ain't Mexican!
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