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Did anybody else see what happen Border Patrol agent had underground room to hide illegal immigrants and drugs?
31 year ago
by admin
in Real Estate Listings
Question : Did anybody else see what happen Border Patrol agent had underground room to hide illegal immigrants and drugs?
Authorities searching the home of a U.S. Border Patrol agent earlier this week found an underground room that they believe was built to hide drugs and illegal immigrants, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday at a court hearing in San Diego.
The agent, Marcos Gerardo Manzano Jr., 26, was arrested earlier this week and charged with harboring illegal immigrants at his home, among them his father, a twice-deported illegal immigrant with a criminal record.
The discovery of the secret room, along with the large law enforcement presence during the search -– an FBI SWAT team led the raiding party — suggest that the investigation is more expansive and that the four-year veteran of the agency could face additional charges.
Authorities found the hidden room beneath a concrete slab in the backyard patio, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Tara McGrath. A search of the room turned up an illegal immigrant hiding under a table, McGrath said. Agents also found 61 grams of methamphetamine, along with drug paraphernalia and narcotics packaging materials in the home, she added.
Manzano Jr., who was arrested Monday night at the Imperial Beach Border Patrol station, travels regularly to Mexico to visit his girlfriend and family members, said McGrath, who urged the judge to bar any foreign travel if he posts bond, which was set at $ 75,000.
The agent’s father, Marcos Gerardo Manzano Sr., 46, had allegedly lived at his son’s home in the border community of San Ysidro since September 2009. He had been deported in 2008 after being convicted of possession of marijuana for sale. Manzano Jr. is also charged with lying to a federal investigator for allegedly stating that he didn’t know of his father’s whereabouts.
Manzano Sr. was not found at the home and remains at large.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/01/border-patrol-agent-had-undeground-room-to-store-illegal-immigrant-drugs-prosecutors-allege.html
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Best answer:
Answer by Jin
This will keep happening until the government stops treating the Border Patrol like dirt. They’re understaffed, undertrained, underpaid and the bar to get in isn’t nearly high enough.
Millions out of work Obama charges taxpayers millions for his Hawaii vacation is this why no border security?
71 year ago
by admin
in Vacation Properties
Question : Millions out of work Obama charges taxpayers millions for his Hawaii vacation is this why no border security?
The Obama’s are charging the American taxpayers the following expenses for their luxurious 11-day Hawaiian vacation:
-Mrs. Obama’s seperate flight to Hawaii: $ 63,000 (Source: White House Dossier)
-Obama’s round trip flight to Hawaii: $ 1 million (Source: GAO estimate)
- Beachfront home rentals for Secret Service and Navy Seals in Kailua ($ 1,200 a day for 14 days): $ 16,800
-White House staff accommodations at Moana Hotel: $ 134,400 ($ 400 per day for staff of 44 people—does not include meals)
-Police overtime: $ 250,000 (Source: Honolulu Police Department)
- Ambulance on stand-by: $ 10,000 (Source: Honolulu City Spokesperson)
TOTAL COST: $ 1,474,200
However, the above figure does not include several other costs, such the rental of an office building in Kailua for White House staff, additional phone lines, car rentals and fuel and surveillance and security costs incurred ahead of the president’s visit.
The following commentary on how Obama could have saved the taxpayers a few dollars, recently appeared in The Hawaii Reporter:
“They could have chosen a less expensive and more secure place to stay such as a beachfront home on the Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station – just a two-minute drive away from the Kailuana Place property where they are now.
The president visits the military base daily to workout, bowl with his kids or enjoy the more private beach there. He also could have stayed at a home 15 minutes away on the beach fronting Bellows Air Force Base as President Bill Clinton did.”
With one in five Americans out of work, record foreclosures, record bankruptcies and a soaring national debt…it is downright shameful for this president to be treated to such luxuries at the expense of the taxpaying public.
How can anyone consider Obama to be anything more than an out-of-touch, uncaring elitist?
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-virginia-beach/millions-out-of-work-obama-charges-taxpayers-millions-for-his-hawaii-vacation
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Best answer:
Answer by Hondo
I smell fresh new year’s troll.
What do you think Arizona Border Town Home to New Illegal Immigration Tactics?
31 year ago
by admin
in Real Estate Listings
Question : What do you think Arizona Border Town Home to New Illegal Immigration Tactics?
MCNEAL, Ariz. (KGUN9 –TV) – While the entire nation is talking about illegal immigration, the residents of McNeal, Arizona are impacted by the smuggling activity on a daily basis. McNeal is a community located less than thirty miles from the United States and Mexican border.
Illegal immigration is a big time problem in McNeal, and all three hundred residents (some say that number is inflated) seem to have a personal story about illegal immigrants and drug or human smugglers.
“Just last week, three of them showed up at my back gate. It was three young men…they were from Mexico City,” shared Richard Humphries.
Stephanie Langham added, “We’re dealing with drug wars, human trafficking wars…we’re dealing with smuggling…all of this stuff!”
“We probably see 30-40 (illegal immigrants) a day between Davis Road and here!” said John Brya, adding, “At least the ones you can see!”
Ones you can see? KGUN9 On Your Side didn’t know exactly what the local store owner meant. But, we started to figure it all out when McNeal residents Sean and Stephanie Langham took us for a little walk.
The couple met our KGUN9 reporter weeks prior at an anti-SB1070 protest in Tucson and invited us to see first hand what they say really goes on in their border town.
“In this area this is where the coyotes are, the drop vehicles … This is where you see the beginning of the drug smuggling. This isn’t just about people trying to find jobs,” said S&S Auto owner Sean Langham.
A few steps further into the desert and under some desert brush we saw what everyone in town meant when they talked about the illegal immigrants and smugglers you could not see. That’s because a lot hide in what appears to be a hole right in middle of the desert landscape.
But, the hole we were gaping into wasn’t any natural hole, it was an man-made underground stash house. A stash house that wasn’t discovered by local cops or Border Patrol.
“This was found by our children. That’s who found it. I know there are a lot of mine shafts around here, but this is not a mine shaft,” said Sean Langham.
Our guide scouted the stash house for any occupants finding only a lone red racer snake taking up residence down below.
“I’ve never seen anything like this. This underground stash house has its own running water, its own electric box over here, and even its own address, # 475,” recounted KGUN9 reporter Joel Waldman.
In the back, next to the local reptile resident, were dirty buckets that we’re told double as toilets. There were plenty of buckets for plenty of people who use it to hide out.
“Just two weeks ago, 70 illegal immigrants were found in this three room stash house. The people here in McNeal called Border and Customs Protection, and all 70 were detained. But this is something the people around here deal with on a daily basis,” noted Waldman.
Back above ground Stephanie Langham wanted to ground us in reality, “Understand you’re protesting for one reason, but we’re protesting for another!”
This mother of four led us to another stash house, this one in plain sight, an abandoned house for sale. And, then, a moment of genuine concern, “Even now doing this interview, we don’t know the repercussion!”
Fear and loathing reflects how people in McNeal are feeling these days, especially toward the federal government who they say has been lax in dealing with immigration issues. “Obama wouldn’t learn a damn thing he doesn’t already know if he came to the border, he doesn’t care,” said Humphries, a retired narcotics officer.
“Do you think it’s a matter of time before there’s another Robert Krentz (a local rancher murdered by a suspected illegal immigrant back on March 27th)?” KGUN9 asked. “I think it is only a matter of time. Yeah, I do,” said Humphries.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12973520
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Best answer:
Answer by Muerto Mujados
Yes it’s only a matter of time before the MURDEROUS MESSYcans kill more Americans.
MESSYco and MESSYcans have been conducting an undeclared border war against America and Americans for decades.
Opps Obama did it again It’s ‘An Outrage’ Obama Stopped Building Border Fence?
81 year ago
by admin
in Private Communities
Question : Opps Obama did it again It’s ‘An Outrage’ Obama Stopped Building Border Fence?
(CNSNews.com) – Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., says it is “an outrage” the Obama administration has stopped building the double-fencing needed to assist the Border Patrol in securing the U.S.-Mexico border and says it is time for the United States to begin fighting illegal immigration and drug smuggling directly at the border instead of within the country where it harms American citizens and communities.
By the time Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, according to the Justice Department, only 108 miles of the 262-mile-long Arizona portion of the 2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border had been fenced.
“We shouldn’t be fighting this battle in the interior. We should be fighting it directly on our international border,” Babeu said in an “Online With Terry Jeffrey” interview. “And it’s an outrage that our own federal government stopped building the fence.”
Babeu, whose southern Arizona county sits astride major drug-and-alien-smuggling routes running north from Mexico, has joined with Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz., and Arizona’s two U.S. senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, to push a 10-point plan for securing the border. The plan includes, among other provisions, completing the necessary border fencing, deploying 3,000 National Guard troops to cover just the Arizona stretch of the border, and deploying significantly more surveillance aircraft than are currently used to patrol the border.
Babeu, who is also a major in the Army National Guard and who did a tour in Iraq, formerly commanded Task Force Yuma, a deployment of 700 Army and Air Force National Guard troops who worked with the Border Patrol to secure one segment of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/71739
If we build golf courses at the border would this get Obama to go there ?
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Best answer:
Answer by Anna P
I’m not sure why the fence was stopped, but most of the organized crime elements–the ones we need to root out–are tunneling under the fences and entering that way. I’d rather see those people caught than worry about small groups coming over a fence any day.
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51 year ago
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—Why did Napolitano tell us the border fence was in good shape?
21 year ago
by admin
in Commercial & Investment
Question : —Why did Napolitano tell us the border fence was in good shape?
The fence is in very bad shap. MOST of the fence is a pedestrian fence and the illegal aliens hop right over, or drive the old truck through.
After 3 years and $ 500 million, Boeing getting a chance to fix glitchy border system
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-sun-boeing-border-tech-0927sep27,0,2613588.story
Along the boundary between Arizona and Mexico recently, Border Patrol agent Michael Scioli weaved his SUV through unforgiving rock formations and hills of desert brush. Illegal immigrants covertly were crossing the border nearby, but Scioli’s agency doesn’t always have the manpower to know exactly where.
Scioli then passed a 98-foot-tall tower fitted with cameras, a high-tech extra set of eyes that he and other agents presumably would welcome. “Don’t have much to say about that,” the agent said tersely.
The tower is part of a network of cameras and sensors rolled out with great fanfare by Chicago-based Boeing Co. three years ago but now is largely disowned by Border Patrol agents and lambasted by lawmakers and government watchdogs.
The so-called virtual fence, which has received $ 500 million from the Department of Homeland Security, should have been fully in place already in southern Arizona. Instead, the department scrapped the first attempt, which cost Boeing at least $ 40 million in overruns.
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This is a GAO report that was done in November.. after Boeing had a chance to fix it.
Tucson Region
Other US projects have raised similar concerns
By Brady McCombs and Stephen Ceasar
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/317733
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.16.2009
The loose administration and “anything-goes” mentality surrounding Operation Stonegarden has raised concerns that it might not be the best use of federal taxpayer money.
It’s not the first time such concerns have been raised about programs involving the U.S. Border Patrol and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security.
The government’s border security strategy has been plagued by high-priced initiatives rolled out with little oversight and no measures of success, resulting in big spending that produces little, reports by the Government Accountability Office and the DHS inspector general show.
• Border fences
Despite a $ 2.4 billion investment to build 264 miles of fencing and 226 miles of vehicle barriers in the last five years, the impact of these barriers on border security is unknown because it has not been measured, according to a September 2009 GAO report.
“Until CBP determines the contribution of tactical infrastructure to border security, it is not positioned to address the impact of this investment,” the report said, referring to Customs and Border Protection.
• Border Patrol checkpoints
A one-year evaluation of U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints by the GAO found that the agency’s self-reported data are insufficient to determine if the inspection stations are efficient or effective.
A 147-page GAO report, released in September, also shows that the agency overstated checkpoint results in the last two years due to a lack of management oversight and inconsistent data-gathering and analysis throughout the agency.
• Virtual fences
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has paid Boeing Co. $ 1.1 billion since 2006 to create and build a border-long network of camera, sensor and radar towers. To date, only a flawed test system in Arizona is being used by the Border Patrol. The virtual fences were supposed to be completed along the Southwest Border by October 2009. Now, they are expected to be done by 2016.
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The search was the Mexican Fence 2009
The Virtual Fence 2009
Tell Congress Napolitano fibbed hard, or plan on that 2.6 trillion dollar amnesty soon.
http://www.heritage.org/research/immigration/wm1490.cfm
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Best answer:
Answer by Joe Citizen
The fence was built with large gaps to allow wildlife to pass easily. Guess what. after all that money the illegals can crawl through them as well.
South of the border: one emerging market for U.S. mortgage lenders that is worth checking into is Mexico.(Reverse Mortgages / Emerging Markets)(Cover story): An article from: Mortgage Banking
01 year ago
by admin
in Loans and Mortgages
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Title: South of the border: one emerging market for U.S. mortgage lenders that is worth checking into is Mexico.(Reverse Mortgages / Emerging Markets)(Cover story)
Author: Melissa M. Kellogg
Publication: Mortgage Banking (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2009
Publisher: Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Volume: 70 Issue: 2 Page: 32(6)
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Lane closure to tie up traffic at border crossing. (asbestos removal work on inspection booths)(San Ysidro border): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
01 year ago
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in Property Appraisals
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Title: Lane closure to tie up traffic at border crossing. (asbestos removal work on inspection booths)(San Ysidro border)
Author: Andrew LePage
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 9, 1991
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: v12 Issue: n35 Page: p3(1)
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Should this corrupt border agent have been tried for treason?
21 year ago
by admin
in Property Appraisals
Question : Should this corrupt border agent have been tried for treason?
A retired Customs and Border Protection officer was sentenced today in San Diego by a federal judge to three years probation for allowing an illegal immigrant to be smuggled through his inspection lane, according to court records.
Alonso Vasquez, 64, was arrested in May 2008 at his home in Escondido following an investigation by the FBI-led Border Corruption Task Force in San Diego, federal agents said.
A former marine who served two combat tours in Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained there in 1967, Vasquez worked as an inspector for nearly 30 years, his attorney, Daniel Smith, said. He last worked at the San Ysidro border crossing, the nation’s busiest.
Vasquez, who retired in 2007, pleaded guilty in March to one count of encouraging and inducing illegal aliens to come to and enter the United States, and aiding and abetting. His retirement came several months after allowing illegal immigrants with false documents to enter the country in February 2007, Smith said.
He was indicted in May 2008 on 18 counts, including charges of bringing in illegal aliens for financial gain and conspiracy. The other charges were dropped.
Retired border agent sentenced
http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/blogpost/20091009retiredborderagentsentenced
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Best answer:
Answer by primec2
The guy did wrong, but I’m not going to lose sleep over 18 more undocumented aliens.
Why do we continue to allow ourselves to be titillated with talk of putting up a border fence?
91 year ago
by admin
in Commercial & Investment
Question : Why do we continue to allow ourselves to be titillated with talk of putting up a border fence?
No fence is going to stop illegal immigration! We had fences for decades, and they are useless because the folk make tunnels. We increase in border patrolmen, and the illegals come in even more. I live on the Border, and IT IS A BIG JOKE!! One day, I am going to take a picture of all the places an illegal can come in and post it on Yahoo! Anwers. I would add that if the border agents were black, white, asians and non hispanic, forty percent of illegal immigration would cease overnight. Hispanics are going to let other hispanics into the country. It is a well known thing here in El Paso.
Governor Rick Perry paid countless millions for a Virtual Fence, replete with computerized spying cameras. Did it help, nope? Did illegal immigration stop or slow down, nope? What you will never hear is serious talk about the US Military taken over. Those who oppose have self interests even at the highest level. All countries use their military to protect their borders, why should we do differently? This actually works, so it will not be serious considered. Obama will talk about it, but it will not advance any further. When have you heard serious talk about deporting illegals and the way they are doing it? All this talk abour incarceration is for the birds!! When an illegal gets put in jail, we pay for him/her to get fat. He/she is not sent back but remain in jail for months then released. Even harder illegal criminals are released back into the community. That is exactly what happened to the illegal in New Jersey who killed two college students. He had been arrested three times and let go every time. We must learn to say, “Forget the fence, we want to see buses and plane headed for the border.” Politicians learned to placeate voters by talking about securing our borders; they will never talk specifics about ways to rid oursleves of 40 million illegals. Since 2001, we have heard about the office of “Homeland Security created by Bush.” What has it done? Are the borders more secure? Tell your State politicians that you want to see folk leaving ASAP! You do not have to rely on D.C. It starts with the States. Sometimes we hear that Georgia or Mississippi are cracking down on illegals. That is not altogether true. Dalton Georgia is 80% illegals. Everyone lies due to vested interests. North Carolina has become the California of the South. It will have major problems in the future. The time to act is now. Mississippi is about the only State that really does something about illegals. They do raids in that State.
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Best answer:
Answer by Lovely
Stop the stupid fence and hire more agents.
