U.S. Border Agents Recruited for IRAQ......

This must be part of the new Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill......

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INVASION USA
U.S. border agents recruited for Iraq
Governors protest to Bush as officers lured overseas by six-figure salaries

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Posted: May 17, 2007
5:00 p.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano

The State Department is recruiting 120 Border Patrol agents to send to Iraq, prompting sharp criticism from two border-state governors who argue the U.S. needs more help on its own frontier.

In a letter to President Bush, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said the move "makes no sense," the Tucson's Arizona Star reported.

"We should be focused on supporting our nation's security efforts along the Mexican and Canadian border instead of hampering CBP (Customs and Border Protection) by sending our best agents to a war zone in Iraq," the governors wrote.

The Star said DynCorp recruiters will be in Tucson today to offer agents $134,114 for a one-year contract, plus a $25,000 signing bonus.

The criticism comes as the federal government prepares for a phase-down as early as July of National Guard troops stationed along the border.

The troops were deployed last year as part of Bush's "Operation Jump Start," which put them in a strictly supportive rule while new Border Patrol officers were hired and trained.

Capt. Kristine Munn told the Tucson paper about 2,400 Guard soldiers are in Arizona as part of the program. Beginning July 1, the troops will be reduced to about 1,200.

The Border Patrol said the number of trained agents in the Tucson Sector increased by about 100, from 2,500 when Operation Jump Start began.

Spokesman Jesus Rodriguez told the Star new agents are coming "all the time," but the governors contend it's not enough.

"We urge you to insist that the National Guard presence be maintained at current levels unless and until the Border Patrol is staffed sufficiently to replace Guard troops on a one-to-one basis," the governors wrote.

Prior to Tucson, the DynCorp recruiters made stops in Laredo, Texas, and Tampa, Fla. They will be in Miami Friday.

The company says successful applicants, who need four years experience, will go to Iraq to provide training, technical assistance and mentoring to officers of the Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement.

 

Thanks Gail M.  I have been looking for this article all afternoon, after a co-worker told me about it. I could comment on so MANY wrong aspects of this move but will only say one thing......hope our agents tell the Iraqi trainees to shoot first and question all dead border crossers.

 And who will be guarding our borders??? Not the Bush let the border patrol  do there jobs here.   GGGRRRRRRRR!!!

Hi There!  Here is the Link to that News Article from World Net Daily:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55752

 

The Following is Part of a Transcript from the Lou Dobbs Tonight Show, from earlier this Evening related to this:

 

 DOBBS: You got to hand it to Felipe Calderon, the president of Mexico. He's trying and trying very hard to deal with an out of control drug industry in his country. Illegal drugs. The war between the drug cartels and Mexican troops escalating the toll from what has been an especially violent week, includes government officials, soldiers, journalists and innocent civilians.

And as Casey Wian now reports some of the violence spreading to our side of the border.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Just 20 miles south of the Arizona border, the deadliest battle so far in Mexico's war against the drug cartels that control much of the country. Twenty two people in the Sonoran town of Canonea (ph) are dead after a federal troop stormed a ranch Wednesday. Fifteen drug cartel members, five policeman and two civilians.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): We find ourselves terrorized.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Very, very bad. It's a very peaceful town. We have never seen this here.

WIAN: But it's happening throughout Mexico. In the capital Monday, gunman assassinated Jose Lugo, a top antinarcotics official in the attorney general's office.

RICARDO NAJERA, MEXICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE (through translator): We're working very hard to find out what's caused this violence and we hope to have a quick response to the situation.

WIAN: The Mexican government's response has been to deploy 22,000 federal troops to battle drug traffickers nationwide. Still, violence is escalating. Kidnappings occur regularly, including this week's abduction of a Mexican television news crew.

So far this year more than a thousand people have been killed by drug cartels according to Mexican media reports. And the violence is spreading to U.S. border communities. The governors of Arizona and New Mexico wrote President Bush this week demanding more Border Patrol agents.

GOV. BILL RICHARDSON, (D) NM: When there's an open border with illegal flow of workers, it breeds other bad people, like drug lords that take advantage of a porous border. And they're violent. And they want to get their drug product in.

WIAN: The drug violence has become entrenched in Mexican popular culture. Videos like these on YouTube set narcocorido (ph) music to images to drugs, weapons and dead bodies. They are a celebration of the drug cultural and the drug lords now battle for control of a third of Mexico's states. Casey Wian, CNN, Los Angeles.

 

Here is the link to this Transcript from the Lou Dobbs Tonight show:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/18/ldt.01.html