Work Beginning Soon on New Border Patrol Headquarters
Within three weeks, work will be starting on the Border Patrol's new headquarters in the former Eagles Aerie 483 building at South Penn St. and Hwy. 101.
The building will be gutted, the inside will be redone and a new roof will be put on. The new facility will be built for up to fifty Border Patrol agents, up from the four agents they had in 2006.
The building will be gutted, the inside will be redone and a new roof will be put on. The new facility will be built for up to fifty Border Patrol agents, up from the four agents they had in 2006.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:21 AM
26 Comments:
Thanks to the Border Patrol for keeping us safe!
Safe from what? All those Canadians flooding across the border to take advantage of our health care system? All the Hispanics grabbing up those family wage yard care jobs?
Oh brother! Yeah, right. Hey, "Conservative" how do they keep us safe? They drive too damn fast between here and Port Townsend and they get involved in "policing activities" which they have no business being in.
It's a boondoggle, and you are a shill.
That's funny, they're always talking about how they're out of money. Now they have the funds to purchase and refurbish a building and increase the officers from 4 to 50? How much will the support be increased (dispatch, management, secretaries, etc?) or is that included in the extra 46? Where are they getting the money for this? How much will it cost the taxpayers? Does that outweigh the value in nabbing Mexicans or whatever it is they do?
Oh, goody. Another parcel of local real estate coming off the tax rolls.
No habla ingles!
We sold that property for just over two million bucks (suckers), and when it's all said and done it's going to cost most all of that money, maybe all of, it to move into a much smaller club.
Oh well, it will be outside the city limits, for now.
According to Jackson this is just a game he agreed to play when the aliens sent him here, hehehe
Why are US Border Patrol arrests reported in Whatcom County, but not on the Olympic Peninsula?
How many arrests justify an upgrade to a 50 agent US Border Patrol station?
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
The American government wants you to live in fear, and reminds you of that at every chance.
Why else would we need all this added "protection"?
This is part of the Fourth Reich's attempt to militarize the Peninsula!
Good to see all(but one)the accurate assesments of this fascist boondoggle.
Osama dead though he may be is still having the last laugh.
Yes, be afraid, be VERY afraid.
if it was not for the Border Patrol the Olympic Peninsula would be a drug smuglers dream come true.
"if it was not for the Border Patrol the Olympic Peninsula would be a drug smuglers dream come true.
10:16 AM, May 02, 2011"
Yeah.
Why walk across the forested border over in eastern Washington, when you can risk your life on the open waters with no place to hide for miles?
Sure. It is a smugglers' dream to be on an open body of water that is monitored by both the Canadian AND US governments. Compared to walking across the forests from Canada to the US with a backpack full of drugs, ANY smuggler will choose the 17 miles of open water, and waving to the Canadian Coast Guard, the Canadian Navy (whose Pacific base is just west of Victoria in Esquimalt) the US Coast Guard and US military.
Yeah. Obviously.
"Osama dead though he may be is still having the last laugh."
Ya think??? Think of all the billions the US and other countries have spent as a result of him! Think of how our everyday lives have been changed because of him!
You think his death will undo any of all of that?
the drug smugglers can't get across in Whatcom county because it's heavily patrolled and there is no access to the remote areas. They come across here because of easy access and low visibility.
Have you ever spotted a 14 foot boat at night from more than a 1/2 mile away? No you have not.
Roast in Hell, Osmama!
Have you ever spotted a 14 foot boat at night from more than a 1/2 mile away? No you have not.
As a matter of fact you can do just that with radar. The Coast Guard has great radar here, I could track a 14 foot boat at night with my piece of crap radar unit on my 32 footer.
There isn't much for drugs getting here in the night, if they are getting here on boats it's in broad daylight while they act as visitors.
Three years ago a fun but crazy chick comes over from Victoria on the Coho to go camping at Hobuck Beach with me, and pulls out her pot and rolls a joint.
Well, whatever....
"the drug smugglers can't get across in Whatcom county because it's heavily patrolled and there is no access to the remote areas. They come across here because of easy access and low visibility."
Low visibility??? What drugs are YOU on??
And, I guess you don't follow this topic very well, based on your TOTALLY un-informed comments. There are many TV programs, documentaries and studies that show how guns, drugs, money and people are smuggled easily across the forested border in eastern Washington, Montana and elsewhere. Some of the border crossings are unmanned! The government relies on people to sign themselves in!
AS Billy sez, any halfway decent radar picks up boats on the Strait, and there are LOTS of agencies running far better ways of monitoring than just traditional radar.
And, if the open waters were such an easy way to get drugs and such across the border, how do you think the Border Patrol, driving around in their big SUVs, would find them?
If they are invisible on 17 miles of open water, how are people in SUVs in Port Angeles going to find them?
Again, what drugs are YOU on?
Congrats to Jack and the NDP!
I sold a boat motor today, and bought a new (near new) four cycle that is much quieter, that's important for my terrorist and smuggling activities, hehehehe.
CUFF AND STUFF all those damn illegals!!!
"CUFF AND STUFF all those damn illegals!!!"
You bet! Let's spend millions of taxpayer money each year to arrest 20 people. How much does that work out to, per person? We have the money to squander on this type of waste, don't we?
You saw the Clallam Sheriffs' comments about the need for the expanded Border Patrol, didn't you?
"...damn illegals!!!"
As if picking up a Honduran immigrant on the Olympic Peninsula is somehow related to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
A news blackout on local US Border Patrol arrests indicates a lack of justification for a new 50 agent facility.
Click on my name above for background.
THank you Port Angeles Online for maintaining this forum.
The PDN is now censoring on topic reader posted links, removing comments. etc.
As far as I'm concerned, the border patrol just murdered someone.
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