Obama Administration to Close 9 Border Patrol Stations in 4 States (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 10:48 PM
He’s really wanting to get a flood the country with new voters by November 4th, isn’t he?
The Obama administration is moving to shut down nine Border Patrol stations across four states, triggering a backlash from local law enforcement, members of Congress and Border Patrol agents themselves. Critics of the move warn the closures will undercut efforts to intercept drug and human traffickers in well-traveled corridors north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Six of the border patrol stations are in Texas.
FOX News reported:
The Obama administration is moving to shut down nine Border Patrol stations across four states, triggering a backlash from local law enforcement, members of Congress and Border Patrol agents themselves.
Critics of the move warn the closures will undercut efforts to intercept drug and human traffickers in well-traveled corridors north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Though the affected stations are scattered throughout northern and central Texas, and three other states, the coverage areas still see plenty of illegal immigrant activity — one soon-to-be-shuttered station in Amarillo, Texas, is right in the middle of the I-40 corridor; another in Riverside, Calif., is outside Los Angeles.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it’s closing the stations in order to reassign agents to high-priority areas closer to the border.
“These deactivations are consistent with the strategic goal of securing America’s borders, and our objective of increasing and sustaining the certainty of arrest of those trying to enter our country illegally,” CBP spokesman Bill Brooks said in a statement. “By redeploying and reallocating resources at or near the border, CBP will maximize the effectiveness of its enforcement mandate and align our investments with our mission.”
But at least one Border Patrol supervisor in Texas has called on local officers to “voice your concerns” to elected officials, warning that the “deactivation” will remove agents from the Texas Panhandle, among other places. Several members of Congress have asked Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher to reconsider the plan. And local officials are getting worried about what will happen once the Border Patrol leaves town, since they rely on those federal officials to assist in making immigration arrests.
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RoadKill commented:
It’s not about illegal aliens. How are the terrorists going to get into the country with all their equipment without the Big O’s help?
Everyone ready for that October surprise?
bg commented:
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Borderless
Cartels Next Door
Operation Fast & Furious
U.N. Arms Trade Treaty
A Defenseless Population
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Moonbat_One commented:
Payback for Perry rejecting Obamacare.
Economan commented:
Anyone who is contemplating giving their vote to Obama is insane.
Kenny Solomon commented:
Hey, I got an idea. Replace the Border Patrol stations with beanbag shotg………… Naaaaaaah, the leftist scum might think that’s actually a good idea.
Flintstone F. commented:
This isn’t news, it’s an election year. They gotta get that base to turn out.
bg commented:
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well it damn well should (#3)!! not only that, but it
shouldn’t have taken any closings for them to go off..
more here (#56) & here (#59), in connecting links & threads ..
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Liz commented:
Doing his part to increase unemployment and boost his voter base simultaneously.
Buffoon commented:
A daily onslaught of treason
workingclass artist commented:
I hope Governor Perry expands the Texas Rangers (Texas legally has it’s own border enforcement army) & bills the Federal Government.
And Obama can lump it.
Redwine commented:
This abominable, anti-American regime will also be letting in terrorists. This is not lost on the Hezbonazis.
lizzy84 commented:
And combine this move with this: National Drug Intelligence Center closed.
Obama Administration has shut down a critical intelligence agency dedicated to identifying, tracking and severing the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism.
http://faustasblog.com/2012/07/national-drug-intelligence-center-closed/
Texas-On-The-River commented:
The Idiot-In-Chief and his co-thugs will claim that these closings and reassignments are due to budget constraints. Oh…really?
That’s odd. ‘Cause every time one of Chairman Zero’s “sons” wants a handout, the money’s always there (Obama’s “stash,” don’t ya know?).
Looking for logic in all of this? Not gonna happen, my friends. This is the Obamanation – and you’d better get d@mn well used to it.
Now…SUBMIT!
Dien Cai Dau commented:
Exactly WHEN does congress get around to having this treasonous administration arrested/ tried/ and stood against a wall for their hi velocity lead poisoning treatment??
The American Revolution 2.0 is getting closer and closer.
Multitude commented:
The sad thing is like everything else he touches, it’s destined to fail too. Illegals are more likely to flee back across the border as Obama’s utterly killed any capacity for jobs in the U.S. And even illegal weapons smugglers won’t need to use the border since Eric Holder’s more than eager to simply hand them to them.
No, really the only people this helps are those crossing the border from other lands like Pakistan and Iran, probably on one-way trips to do some sight seeing. Is that what Obama’s attempting to engineer? An effort to make the Truthers fiction a reality? Barack, this is absolutely not what Marx meant by “First tragedy, then farce.”
billy sol commented:
he needs the votee!
Highlander commented:
So, what’s new? Are we done with this administration yet?
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