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More onon-enforcement of federal immigration laws to help Obama's amnesty program for illegal immigrants. From Fox News: The Obama administration is moving to shut down nine Border Patrol stations across four states, triggering a backlash from local law enforcement, members of Congress and Border Patrol agents themselves. Critics of the move warn the closures will undercut efforts to intercept drug and human traffickers in well-traveled corridors north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Though the affected stations are scattered throughout northern and central Texas, and three other states, the coverage areas still see plenty of illegal immigrant activity -- one soon-to-be-shuttered station in Amarillo, Texas, is right in the middle of the I-40 corridor; another in Riverside, Calif., is outside Los Angeles. Maybe the Obama regime wants more of their guns to flow through to Mexican drug cartels? U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it's closing the stations in order to reassign agents to high-priority areas closer to the border. "These deactivations are consistent with the strategic goal of securing America's borders, and our objective of increasing and sustaining the certainty of arrest of those trying to enter our country illegally," CBP spokesman Bill Brooks said in a statement. "By redeploying and reallocating resources at or near the border, CBP will maximize the effectiveness of its enforcement mandate and align our investments with our mission." But at least one Border Patrol supervisor in Texas has called on local officers to "voice your concerns" to elected officials, warning that the "deactivation" will remove agents from the Texas Panhandle, among other places. Several members of Congress have asked Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher to reconsider the plan. And local officials are getting worried about what will happen once the Border Patrol leaves town, since they rely on those federal officials to assist in making immigration arrests. "It could impact us tremendously since we've only got two agents up here now for 26 counties," Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas told FoxNews.com. Continue reading>>> Scotty Starnes | July 10, 2012 at 9:45 PM | Tags: Amarillo, Amnesty, Border Patrol, Border Patrol stations, California, drug trafficking, human trafficking, illegal immigrants, Obama Administration, Riverside, Texas | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-7oM | | | |
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