Border net catches few terror suspects

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Border net catches few terror suspects

What one Border Patrol agent calls "immigration Dumpster-diving" results in charges against ordinary illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Canada border as counter-terrorism becomes mixed with immigration issues

By NADJA DROST, Hearst Newspapers

First published in print: Sunday, April 19, 2009

ROCHESTER — Two U.S. Border Patrol agents board a bus in upstate New York, asking everyone "What's your nationality?" Prove you're allowed to be here.

A canine barks at a knapsack. Its owner is a legal Chinese refugee with fear in her eyes. Border Patrol agents have found her with a marijuana cigarette. Hours later, she's still being detained.

This is the face today of the U.S. Border Patrol in the North. Operating up to 100 miles from Canada with a federal mandate to catch terrorists, agents now crouch in the Vermont snow, ride horseback in Montana and patrol ferry terminals in Washington state. For thousands of working immigrant families, it is a frightening specter.

Public data obtained by Hearst Newspapers show the U.S. government, despite a massive injection of resources and staff to guard against terrorists crossing the Canadian border, is mostly catching ordinary illegal immigrants — creating a backlog of court cases and a flurry of protest from the public about random highway stops and bus or train inspections.

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http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story...?storyID=791561

[Niels Bohr 72]

Yay! More random searches. Everyone wants it! Lets continue on doing it.

[peejay 327]

This article is nothing more than pro-amnesty rhetoric that suckers the gullible, naive, and stupid into believing that the USA should have open borders, no immigration controls what-so-ever, and no workplace authorization enforcement.

All these so called "immigrants" are illegal aliens that have violated long standing laws. These are basically the same type of laws and sactions that most modern democratic nations practice all over the world.

Whether these illegal aliens are ax murderers or illegal workers is irrelevant. Sovereign nations have the right to regulate who comes into the country, for what purpose, and under what rules/regulations they are required to adhere to while they are here.

Obviously people that do not have permission to enter or have violated the provisions in which they were legally admitted are subject to long standing provisions of existing law. They do not have a right to disregard and violate our laws. They are subject to deportation and returned to their own countries. Just as we would if we violated their laws.