(A day late, and a dollar short, if Bush & Co. really wanted to stop
terrorism, they would have shut the border down 9-11-2001. Instead
Bush wants to give amnesty to millions of ILLEGAL Aliens and open the
borders even more and expand the globalist socialist NAFTA agenda and to
force National IDs, and limit Constitutional freedoms on AMERICANS.
This is just a diversion, by gestapo Homeland Security Director Ridge.
Watch, nothing of any real value will be done on the Mexican-American
border. But they will concentrate on devising and implementing more
restrictions on YOU, Mr. and Mrs. America. Watch what liars do, not
what liars say.)
Ridge Speaks About Border Security
By RON FOURNIER
AP White House Correspondent
February 28, 2002, 1:17 PM EST
WASHINGTON -- The United States and Mexico need to do "something
more and something different" to tighten border security while
speeding the flow of commerce at key crossings, Homeland Security
Director Tom Ridge said Thursday.
Ridge said the deployment of National Guard troops at the U.S.-Mexican
border will be a temporary measure until new Customs agents can be hired
and trained. "The last thing we want to do is militarize the border
between friends," the former Pennsylvania governor said.
Ridge met with reporters to preview his two-day trip next week to Mexico,
which will lay the groundwork for President Bush's visit later in the
month.
The Bush administration and Mexico hope to strike a deal on border
security, and Ridge said he has offered the U.S.-Canadian arrangement as
a model.
In December, the United States and its northern neighbor agreed to
coordinate border safety in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Provisions include resuming a computer system that eases the entry
process into both countries for low-risk, preapproved users. It also
calls for new technology to clear goods in factories, rail yards and
seaports instead of waiting until they reach the border crossing.
Ridge cited both provisions Thursday as he expressed hope that the United
States and Mexico will "reach our goal of securing the border
without jeopardizing the commerce" that travels between the two
nations.
"It's been pretty clear that security is a new dimension -- that
(after) Sept. 11 there is certainly a heightened sense that we need to do
something more and something different but we can't do it at the expense
... of commerce activity and jobs," Ridge said.
With new technologies, officials can "try to identify your low-risk
traffic and no-risk traffic," allowing for greater focus on cargo
and people who are unknown, Ridge said.
He meets Monday with Mexican counterparts and the next day with Mexican
President Vicente Fox before returning to Washington. Bush travels to
Mexico two weeks later.
Ridge said that since a free-trade deal with Mexico in 1994, commerce has
tripled along the border. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, which led to
tighter border restrictions, "commerce has slowed down," Ridge
said.
Ridge also said:
* He does not know how many drugs were smuggled into the United States
through a tunnel discovered on the border by the Drug Enforcement
Administration on Wednesday. The good news, he said, is that the
discovery of the tunnel underscores the benefits of U.S. and Mexican
police working together.
* He is still pushing to consolidate border enforcement duties now spread
throughout dozens of federal agencies, but acknowledged the matter is the
subject of debate inside the administration. "This is still very
actively being discussed," he said. "Stay tuned."
Copyright � 2002, The Associated Press
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-InfoWarz
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch
strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both
devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying,
Surely I will fill thee with men, as with
caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
-Jeremiah 51:12-14
