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CHD RESPONDS TO SECTOR CHIEF NICLEY - WELCOME TO COCHISE COUNTY, WHERE CITIZENS ARE GOING O HELP WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT!
Whoops! Pardon us Mr. Nicley, we didn’t mean to get in the way, but we just happened to find these 9 gangbangers you seemed to have missed. You’re welcome sir!
The new Tucson Sector Chief of the Border Patrol, Chief Patrol Agent Michael Nicley, has made some rather outrageous and inaccurate comments to the media in the last week. Nicley says, according to an article penned by “biased” Bill Hess of the S.V. Herald, “No, without thanks.” Nicley also stated he does not need help from the citizen patrol groups. Our response? Yes, we are going to help, and we don’t need any thanks –it’s the American thing to do. So get over it.
Mr. Nicley, welcome to Cochise County, where people don’t buy for one minute your statements that Border Patrol has the situation in hand. Mr. Nicely you are about as far removed and out-of-touch with the agents who work under your supervision as President Bush is out-of-touch with Americans, 80% of whom want this border secured with the U.S. military. Welcome to Cochise County Mr. Nicley, where you are going to get help from citizens whether you want it or not, and there is not a damn thing you can do to stop us. After all we are law-abiding citizens and have never “gotten in the way” as you so lamented to the media. In fact, Mr. Nicley is clearly ignorant of the fact that we have assisted Border patrol agents in locating 3,972 people in Cochise County alone who had slipped through the first line of defense.
I spoke to an agent in the field this weekend who felt we were somehow trying to make Border Patrol look bad, or make it look as if they were not doing their job. On the contrary, we are working to support Border Patrol by becoming force multipliers, and to challenge the President and Congress to give agents everything they need to shut the border down and force people to come through an authorized port of entry, legally.
We want to show Sector Chief Nicley how we “got in the way” over the past weekend. CHD volunteers called in to report a group of people, totalling 53, entering our country illegally. Reports referred to as ’G123’s, reports from citizens, are up at least a thousand percent. Border Patrol responded to our calls and apprehended every person in the groups we spotted – Oh yeah, you’re welcome.
CHD volunteers found another 36 illegal aliens hiding in the bushes 30 miles north of the border –they had slipped through holes in our first line of defense, not because agents are not doing their jobs, but rather because there are not enough agents on the ground. President Bush and Congress are the only ones who can give Border Patrol the assistance they need – at this point only the military can help extinguish the flashpoint of violence directed towards Border Patrol and U.S. citizens.
And lastly, Mr. Nicley, Border Patrol does not own any airspace – there are areas that are restricted, but do you honestly think you can intimidate pilots who obviously know more about airspace than you? Mr. Nicley was not effective in securing a tiny portion of the border near Yuma –we don’t have much confidence he will do any better here in the Tucson sector.
CHD found this group of 22 illegals waiting for a ride Saturday night. They were 28 miles north of the border.
While some Americans don’t realize that “there is no Homeland Security,” folks that live in rural border areas hear the dogs bark, we hear the roar of backpackers in the darkness slipping past our homes—and if we turn on a spotlight we see groups of illegal aliens headed north. Just imagine being a woman coming home late at night from work, or walking out her front gate to take out the trash and imagine the shock of seeing a group of people that have just run out of the fields... There she is (alone?) in the dark. This is a nightly sight in the darkness here in the rural border neighborhoods, we listen to the sound of the invasion, and we know that there is a steady illegal human flow headed north.
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FEDS OFFICIAL REPORT: “CHINESE ILLEGAL ALIENS HAD NO TERROR LINK”
However... Aircraft Owner Operates Flight School That Trained One or More Arab Terrorists
By Douglas J. Hagmann
Mexican Pilot Expected to be Charged with Smuggling Illegal Aliens 25 January, 2005
While the FBI publicly asserts that the possible terrorist plot involving Chinese nationals against Boston last week was a false alarm, a small plane carrying four illegal Chinese immigrants and a pilot identified as a Mexican national landed at Stinson Municipal Airport in San Antonio Monday night. After landing, the airfield was surrounded by FBI and DHS officials.
The four passengers - two women and two men carrying Chinese passports were taken into custody along with the Mexican pilot. The single-engine plane was intercepted after flying 125 miles from Eagle Pass, Texas to Stinson Airfield. The Mexican pilot is expected to be charged with smuggling illegal aliens, according to Alonzo Pena, special agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Antonio.
The 1985 single engine Cessna is owned by Hameed Afzal, 48 and his wife, Alyce S. Taylor, 70 of San Antonio, Texas. Both Afzal and Taylor operate the ALPHA-TANGO Flying School, 9623 W. Terminal, San Antonio, Texas 78126. The 2003 San Antonio Municipal Directory lists Hameed Afzal as the President and Alyce S. Taylor as the Co-owner and instructor of the flight school. Their website advertises special consideration for potential Saudi pilots, and instructions on obtaining student visas.
Interesting Circumstances
News reports indicated that the plane that was carrying the Chinese passengers was last registered in 1999, carrying a three-year registration; no further registration records were found according to the FAA, despite renewal notices sent to Afzal. FAA records identify the plane as a 180 Horse Power, 1985 Lycoming/0-320 SERIES with the of N98873. Research by Northeast Intelligence Network analysts found an accident report associated with that plane dated August 21, 2000 that caused structural damage to the tail and horizontal stabilizer. According to the FAA report, the pilot held a valid Mexican private pilot certificate at the time of the accident.
Further research found that one notable flight student of the ALPHA-TANGO Flying School was none other than Abdul Hakim Murad, who was convicted several years ago of a plot to crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters. Murad was also named as a co-conspirator of 1993 World Trade Center bombing with Ramzi Yousef. A report in the San Antonio Express-News following the 9/11 attacks states that flight school owner Afzal Hameed contacted the FBI as he believed that some of the 9/11 hijackers might have received flight training at his school.
Network researchers and analysts Sean Osborne, Laura Mansfield and Randy Taylor contributed to this report.
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MEXICO DOESN’T OFFER LICENSES TO IT’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
By: Ray Carney - Commentary
Edward Sifuentes has written yet another "one-sided" story regarding illegal aliens demanding driver's licenses. In this story ("Local group continues pro-license rallies," Jan. 18), a group based in Vista called Hispanos Unidos in U.S.A. is demanding that California grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
Since the North County Times and Mr. Sifuentes fail to print the facts regarding the driver's license debate, I thought I would give you readers a chance to see what the requirements are in Mexico to obtain a Mexican driver's license and let you decide where you stand on the issue.
Driver's licenses in Mexico are issued by the 31 states and the Federal District, with laws regulating identity requirements for those applying in each state being strict.
Typical are the regulations of Baja California, the contiguous state with California. In order to obtain a regular Baja California driver's license, the applicant must know how to read and write, be over the age of 18 ("student licenses" are available for those over 16), and they must show an official photo and signed ID. Those forms of identification accepted include a Mexican passport, a federal or state voter's ID or military identification.
Furthermore, applicants must demonstrate proof of residency through electricity, water, telephone and property tax bills that are less than 1 month old. They must also have a health certificate no less than 1 month old. And of course they must pass the requisite written and driving tests.
Foreign nationals applying for a Baja California driver's license must comply with the applicable points mentioned above, plus, as with most states in Mexico, they must "duly prove their legal presence in the country."
In the Federal District, which often serves as a prototype for regulations elsewhere in Mexico, the driver's license code section concludes: "With respect to foreigners, they will also have to verify their legal presence in the country by showing the immigration document issued by the authorized authority."
Why should California grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens when Mexico does not? Why is it that when we try to tighten our licensing laws we are called racists and xenophobic when Mexico is allowed to deny anyone who is not a citizen a driver's license?
The playing field between Mexico and the United States is not an equal one. If Mexico wishes its nationals to have rights and privileges here, it must do the same to its illegal alien population, some of whom are U.S. citizens.
Mexico understands that driving is a privilege and not a right. It's about time we in California do the same and say no to illegal aliens driving in our state. Let's put this nonsense to bed once and for all.
Fallbrook resident Ray Carney can be contacted at raycarney@dslextreme.com.
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WEB SITE DARES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR EMPLOYERS TO REMAIN IN “VIOLATION”
Controversial approach to emasculating immigration law-breakers
by Jim Wood
With the cost of illegal immigration reaching astronomic proportions, NoInvaders.Org has just now been launched from the rage of legal citizens who are livid with a federal government that caters to special interest groups demanding cheap labor and politicians demanding new voters.
The new Web site is my creation, a Los Angeles area webmaster named Jim Wood, completed January 22, and I hope to “ruffle a few feathers” by offering state-by-state, city-by-city directories of illegal aliens, individual employers, both bad and good, schools and major corporations targeted for boycotts, as well as ICE, IRS, FBI, Social Security Administration contact information, as well as media sources. Promoting law-abiding employers is the only service charging a fee.
All a surfer has to do is upload information for, say, a non-compliant employer, an optional photograph, and after careful review the profile will appear in the “Bad Employer Directory”. Other surfers can use a free online fax service to complain to the proper bureaucracies. Also, conditions for citizen’s arrests are outlined with a forum for potential members of a “posse”.
I was inspired by the hosts of KFI-AM’s “John and Ken Show” L.A. radio program, who hammer-out the problems associated with illegal immigration daily and its devastating impact on southern California.
The site can be visited by pointing a browser at http://www.NoInvaders.Org.
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ASSAULTS ON BORDER AGENTS INCREASE
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sixty-four Border Patrol agents have been assaulted in the past three months along a 260-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border — the country’s busiest illegal entry point — as the U.S. government continues its fight for “operational control” of the region.
As law-enforcement efforts have increased, so have the incidents of violence and the intensity of the attacks on the agents in the stretch known as the Tucson sector — which are averaging one assault every two days and are on pace to increase this year by 80 percent.
Border Patrol spokesman Andy Adame in Tucson said alien and drug smugglers have become increasingly aggressive in protecting their illicit cargoes of drugs and aliens.
“It is obvious the violence associated with smugglers has evolved from rock-throwing incidents to tactics intended to seriously maim or kill agents attempting to bring them to justice,” Mr. Adame said. “They’re starting to see some losses, and when you talk financial gain with smugglers and the loss of it, they’re going to react violently.”
The State Department this week issued a warning to Americans traveling into the northern border regions of Mexico, saying they should be “aware of the risk posed by the deteriorating security situation.” The warning said violent criminal activity along the border, including killings and kidnappings, was on the rise.
The increase in violence, some of it involving attacks by smugglers with automatic weapons, comes 10 months after the Department of Homeland Security initiated a law-enforcement program aimed at shutting down the Arizona border to alien and drug smugglers.
Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson, who heads border and transportation security, said at the time that the Arizona Border Control Initiative (ABC) would impair the ability of smugglers to operate, save lives and restore control to the Arizona border.
In October, Mr. Hutchinson noted what he called a sizable increase in border apprehensions under the initiative, saying the increase showed “sure and steady progress toward its goal of stemming illegal immigration into the southwest United States.”
But Mr. Hutchinson made no mention during the October press conference of the rising number of assaults on the agents involved in the program, who are assigned out of the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector.
T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), which represents all 11,000 Border Patrol non-supervisory agents, said increased enforcement efforts in the Tucson sector have emboldened smugglers to become more aggressive in challenging competitors and protecting themselves from detection and arrest.
“Anytime people are trying to hurt our agents, we are very concerned,” said Mr. Bonner, a 27-year Border Patrol veteran. “And as we put more pressure on these warring factions of smugglers, these gangsters are going to push back as they try to take over different parts of the industry.”
Mr. Bonner blamed the increased violence, in part, on what he called the “restrictive enforcement policies” of homeland security officials in Washington, saying agents often are prohibited from actively pursuing those involved. He also said part of the blame belongs to federal judges who are not fully prosecuting those accused of violent acts and to the Mexican government, which is not cooperating in targeting the offenders.
“It’s easy to throw rocks at the agents from across the border, and it would be nice to get a little cooperation from Mexico in controlling the situation,” he said. “If Americans standing on U.S. soil were throwing rocks and injuring Mexican police, law-enforcement authorities in this country would be much more actively involved in bringing them to justice.”
Mr. Bonner said if the situation is not dealt with quickly and effectively, the smugglers will have “every motivation” to continue the violence.
Michael Albon, spokesman for the NBPC’s Tucson office, said there was not only an increase in the instances of violence by the smugglers against agents in the sector, but against the aliens they are transporting and the traveling public.
“The union would like to see stricter enforcement of the assault on federal employees laws and stiffer penalties and sentences,” said Mr. Albon, a former Border Patrol agent who retired in 2001 after 30 years with the agency.
The incidents of violence in the Tucson sector have risen dramatically in fiscal 2005, which began Oct. 1. During fiscal 2004, the Tucson sector documented 118 assaults on its agents, including some who were shot at with automatic weapons, others who were attacked with block-sized rocks and others whose vehicles were rammed by armed smugglers. The rate of assaults since Oct. 1 in the sector would put the fiscal 2005 figure at 212.
In 2004, the Border Patrol apprehended 1.15 million illegal aliens along the 1,940-mile U.S.-Mexico border trying to sneak into this country between the nation’s land ports of entry, more than 3,100 a day — a 24 percent increase from the year before. The agents also confiscated 1.4 million pounds of illegal narcotics with an estimated street value of $1.62 billion.
About 43 percent of the apprehensions — more than 490,000 — were made in the Tucson sector.
Just last week, Border Patrol agents working near Nogales, Ariz., were rammed by a vehicle driven by a suspected alien smuggler, who Mr. Adame said tried to sideswipe the agents after a traffic stop. The suspected smuggler, a 35-year-old woman, and four illegal aliens were arrested. One agent was pinned against his vehicle, but escaped serious injury.
Six Border Patrol agents assigned to the Tucson sector have been killed in the line of duty, including Agent Alexander Kirpnick, 27, who was fatally shot in June 1998 near Nogales as he sought to arrest four men hauling marijuana into the United States.
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NUMBER OF “PERSONS OF INTEREST” IN BOSTON TERROR PLOT RAISED TO 16
By Mike Minton
Talon News
January 21, 2005
BOSTON (Talon News) -- The FBI Thursday added ten names to the number of people which it sought for questioning in a possible dirty bomb attack plot on Boston, raising the total number of “persons of interest” to 16. The additional ten persons consisted of nine Chinese and one man of unknown national origin.
The release of the ten names comes on the heels of the FBI announcement on Wednesday that it was seeking four Chinese and possibly two Iraqis who, according to an anonymous tip, entered the country illegally through Mexico. The tipster claimed they would be awaiting a shipment of “nuclear oxide” to be used in a terrorist attack on the city of Boston.
Apparently, the ten additional names came as a result of the same anonymous tip. Supposedly, none of the names have appeared on any previous terrorist watch lists.
Government officials immediately moved to downplay the potential threat. The U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, Michael Sullivan, stressed that the tip was uncorroborated, and the validity of the source could not be confirmed. He also pointed out that the “persons of interest” were wanted only for questioning at this time, saying, “They’re not wanted at this point in time for any crimes because there’s no evidence at this point in time that they’ve committed any crimes. [W]e’re not certain exactly where they are. We can’t even say for certain they’re in the country.”
In a further attempt to calm nerves, an anonymous government official said that, while the tip said the potential terrorists were awaiting a shipment of “nuclear oxide,” no such material even exists. However, according to a Reuters report, “Owen Cote, a research scientist and associate director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said spent nuclear fuel that potentially could be used for such a device is stored in a powderdized oxide form of either uranium or plutonium...[S]pent fuel is more radioactive than new fuel.”
Even as the government urged citizens not to be overly anxious about the matter, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney found the potential threat enough of a concern to skip President Bush’s inauguration and return home Wednesday night.
The government’s efforts to curb fears were also lost on some Bostonians. Some underground parking garages in Boston were searching cars as they entered their facilities, and pictures of the initial four possible terrorists were placed inside subway token booths manned by transit employees.
According to the Reuters report, Marisol Lopez, a 34 year old Bostonian, told a reporter, “‘My question is why do they have pictures of these people if they aren’t on a watch list? There must be some reason why the government has these pictures on file.’”
The names of those wanted for questioning, according to the FBI’s website (www.fbi.gov) are: Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen, Guozhi Lin, Yu Xian Weng, Quinquan Lin or Quiquan Lin, Liqiang Liang, Min Xiu Xie, Xiang Wei Liu or Xing Wei Liu, Mei Xia Dong, Xiuming Chen, Cheng Lin Liu, Zao Yun Wang and Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinones. Pictures, dates of birth and passport numbers of some of the 16 may be viewed at the FBI website.
Copyright © 2005 Talon News -- All rights reserved.
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