Border Patrol Nation

[Ravi]

I put this in politics because it is a political issue.

New book out exploring just how much we've given up to the Border Patrol. If life were fair, the "police state" nutters would be having a fit over this. But they probably don't care.

The statistics Miller has gathered are startling: the US government spent $18 billion on border and immigration enforcement in 2012, 24 percent more than the budgets for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Marshals Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives combined; Homeland Security is expelling more than 400,000 people annually from the United States; the 100-mile rule, which authorizes Border Patrol to perform warrantless searches on anyone within 100 miles of U.S. land or coastal borders, covers 190 million people, almost two-thirds of the citizenry.

Border Patrol Nation - CSMonitor.com

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Papers please, and those here are calling for more. Forgot your wallet at home, welcome to beautiful Mexico City...

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Open borders for justice and the common good !!! Lol

 

[Ravi]

Papers please, and those here are calling for more. Forgot your wallet at home, welcome to beautiful Mexico City...

Or Honduras.

from the story:

There are many more outrageous stories, such as the Dantean case of Mark Lyttle, a mentally ill American citizen of Puerto Rican descent erroneously deported to Mexico. Mexican officials in turn deported Lyttle, who speaks no Spanish and had no money, to Honduras, where he was imprisoned and detained. Upon his release he made his way to Nicaragua and then to Guatemala, where he was finally able to convince an embassy official that he was a U.S. citizen.

 

[Peach]

Open borders for justice and the common good !!! Lol

Are those that crossed the border, and are crossing, not children of God?

 

[WillowTree]

Open borders for justice and the common good !!! Lol

Are those that crossed the border, and are crossing, not children of God?

Get God to pay for their upkeep. Why don't you?

 

[Mad Scientist]

Open borders for justice and the common good !!! Lol

Are those that crossed the border, and are crossing, not children of God?

Shaming doesn't work, Ms, Alinsky.

They're also children of some other country.

One of the ONLY things teh Government is SUPPOSED to do is enforce the borders.

 

[Ravi]

Open borders for justice and the common good !!! Lol

Are those that crossed the border, and are crossing, not children of God?

Get God to pay for their upkeep. Why don't you?

God says we should love our neighbors. And children.

 

[Ravi]

But this thread is about how the Border Patrol enjoys incredible power in this country, not about the refugees.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Open borders for justice and the common good !!! Lol

Are those that crossed the border, and are crossing, not children of God?

They are not children of their god, you know, the tall white one with blonde hair and blue eyes, that Jew from Palestine where all the tall blondes live.

 

[WillowTree]

Are those that crossed the border, and are crossing, not children of God?

Get God to pay for their upkeep. Why don't you?

God says we should love our neighbors. And children.

We do love em. Don't mean I'm willing to raise them.