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Federal Government to Open "Un-Manned" Border Crossing

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Posted by Flaise Gleque7242 2011-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Feds must be running out of bi-linguals needed to frisk Americans at TSA checkpoints.

Posted by wr 2011-01-30 00:22|| 2011-01-30 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 "monitored by immigration officials hundreds of miles away"

This should end well. /s

Posted by tipover 2011-01-30 00:32|| 2011-01-30 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Crossing to reopen April 2012? That should give the Mexican government plenty of time to print up and distribute lotsa maps to the Great Bend crossing. Very thoughtful of us don't you think?

Posted by GK 2011-01-30 00:42|| 2011-01-30 00:42|| Front Page Top

#4 How fuckin stupid are these people?

Posted by tu3031 2011-01-30 00:47|| 2011-01-30 00:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Back when W. Bush first opened up the illegal alien can of worms in a big sort of way, there was a running gag that those powerful businessmen who made fortunes from illegal alien labor, and so, vehemently opposed any limits on illegal entry at all, had a racist saying: "The Spics must flow!"

Seriously, they approached the debate from the point of view that it threatened their wealth, and so they lobbied and fought long and hard, spending the big bills, while the anti-illegal immigration movement just tried to argue.

And that will never be a contest in Washington.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-30 08:36|| 2011-01-30 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 The Obama "Backdoor Amnesty" Plan

Posted by Goodluck 2011-01-30 09:00|| 2011-01-30 09:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Vigilantism arises when government is unable or unwilling to provide the basics of security. It is a symptom not an underlying pathology.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-01-30 09:32|| 2011-01-30 09:32|| Front Page Top

#8 It will be interesting to see how NPS handles the first drug transport killing in or around the park. This park is utilized like the Great Smokey Mountains, not so much for its special natural wonders but as a recreation park for locals. Texans won't be happy to feel threatened in thier playground.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-01-30 10:22|| 2011-01-30 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 No Problem.

After all Visa Express was such a success wasn't it? The person who came up with the idea even got a big fat award and promotion.

So what if 3,000 innocent people died as a result.

(yes... I think I do need a /SARC tag...)

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-30 10:47|| 2011-01-30 10:47|| Front Page Top

#10 "It will be interesting to see how NPS handles the first drug transport killing in or around the park."

Simple, NS - they'll place all the blame on the American citizen who was careless enough to get shot by the ~~illegal alien smugglers~~ "entrepreneurs." >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-01-30 11:26|| 2011-01-30 11:26|| Front Page Top

#11 If it is the crossing I think it is, it was silly to ever close it in the first place. I took the litle boat across the river - could have just taken my shoes off and walked - and walked into the little town and bought lunch at a (the) little restaurant there (with non-corn-syrup coke!), and bought some stones from a boy on a burro and smuggled them back into the country. It was not and will not be a prime location for smuggling or illegal immigration - way too public, and far from anything else on either side. (We did see obviously illegal crossings, but not there, and even those were pretty benign - looked like a family getting together for Easter & smuggling in deposit pop bottles and used car parts.)

Posted by Glenmore 2011-01-30 11:49|| 2011-01-30 11:49|| Front Page Top

#12 I wonder if this is the same crossing featured in Nevada Barr's Borderline.

(Nothing to do with anything; I was just wondering. It sounds like it.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-01-30 16:28|| 2011-01-30 16:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Monitored hundreds of miles away...certainly from 9-5...what could go wrong?

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2011-01-30 18:29|| 2011-01-30 18:29|| Front Page Top

#14 WAFF > [StrategyPage] SWEDEN RUNS OUT OF [prof regular = frontline] SOLDIERS. What Sweden has are mainly in Mil Reserves.

Better or worse than the UK = Great Britain???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-30 21:22|| 2011-01-30 21:22|| Front Page Top

#15 The US likely won't suffer like the UK or Sweden for a long time yet - THE GREATER DANGER TO US INTERESTS IS US MILFORS BEING "OUT OF THEATER" WHEN MAJOR CONFLICTS DO BREAK OUT, + LACK OF READY MATERIEL = WAR RESERVES, ETC. DUE TO THE "BIGGER-N-LONGER-THAN-1929/GREAT DEPRESSION" GLOBAL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN.

The Econ-troubled, "Weak/Declining" US "CAN'T" OR "WON'T" INTERVENE anymore widout NATO-EU, UNSC CONSENT + MASSIVE MIL SUPPORT???

"Globalism".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-30 21:31|| 2011-01-30 21:31|| Front Page Top

#16 E.g. FOX NEWS AM > ANTI-MUBARAK PROTESTORS in Los Angeles, CA > one of them held up a large personal protest sign which said "THE US CAN'T DO ANYTHING ANYMORE".

Just sayin.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-30 21:34|| 2011-01-30 21:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Doesn't look very rosy right now does it Joseph Mendiola?

I want the 2012 campaign to start now so candidates can rip into Big Zero for two full years, starting now. The have plenty to talk about.

Posted by Cheans Oppressor of the Veal Cutlets9081 2011-01-30 21:50|| 2011-01-30 21:50|| Front Page Top

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