Border Security Has Nothing To Do With Security
Take it from someone who has crossed the border to and from mexico more than most people. The increased funding for more agents at the border is disguised as being for homeland security purposes and to look for terrorists.
The white house has sold this to the american public based on that lie. The increased scrutiny at the border is about confiscating more drugs. The white house knows the public got tired of a war on drugs that has accomplished nothing in years and that it would be much easier to get that funding based on the threat of terrorists crossing the border.
They use that fear for everything else, why not for the drug war too? Where are the results if the white house isn’t lying about what the funding is really for? Drug confiscations and arrests at the border are up. That is a good thing. But how many terrorists have been caught or stopped due to the billions in new funding? Show me some stats.
From the NYTimes
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: October 21, 2007United States border agents have stepped up scrutiny of Americans returning home from Mexico, slowing commerce and creating delays at border crossings not seen since the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The increased enforcement is in part a dress rehearsal for new rules, scheduled to take effect in January, that will require Americans to show a passport or other proof of citizenship to enter the United States. The requirements were approved by Congress as part of antiterrorism legislation in 2004.
The second real goal of this extra funding is because many americans now live in mexico. Many retired to live there because they cannot live in the US on what social security pays them.
This results in loss of revenue in the US. Many on social security now live under a new rule that says if you withdraw more than 50% of your social security check while you are in mexico, you could lose your social security altogether.,
The US does not want these retirees living in mexico and are doing their best to keep them from doing so, including the hassles listed above in this article. They want to track them and the number of times they go to mexico and come back. Many of them have to bank on the US side of the border so their visits to the US will correspond with the withdrawals from their accounts and this information can be used against them.
Funds for the Border Patrol, which scouts the border between entry points for illegal immigrants, increased by 70 percent since 2005 to $3 billion. By contrast, financing for border station agents, who processed nearly 300 million travelers entering the country legally by land last year, rose by 30 percent since 2005, to $2.1 billion.
Also in August, border officials said, the Department of Homeland Security issued a directive designed to unify inspection procedures for all the border agencies under its umbrella. It set an eventual goal, with no fixed deadline, for agents to conduct a database query for every person crossing the border.
If it was just about stopping terrorists why would they need to stop every single person that crosses the border for a database query? Grandma over there looks like a terrorist?
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