Postcards - and Insults - from the Edge

The Final Insult:

Gvt. Asks Border Agents to Finish Fence After Cutting Back on Manpower

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Border Patrol to build fencing

By Jerry Seper and Stephen Dinan

The U.S. Border Patrol is asking for volunteers among its agents to help build fences on the U.S.-Mexico border, even as President Bush is withdrawing half the National Guard troops he sent there last year to build fences. . Rich Pierce, executive vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents the agency's 11,000 non-supervisory agents, said that while the Bush administration "on one hand is trying to convince the American public it is serious about immigration enforcement," it has failed to provide the needed funding and manpower. "Meanwhile, the other hand reduces the National Guard by 50 percent, whose job to build the border fence has hardly started," he said. "Now the Border Patrol agents who were meant to replace the National Guard are pulled from border enforcement and tasked with building the fence. "The president's game of pretending to enforce our border continues," he said. "He has never been serious about this issue at all."

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Chicago Tribune

Invader gets 6 years for molesting 2 boys

An [illegal alien... criminal] who pleaded guilty Monday to molesting the two teenage sons of a church couple who befriended him drew a sharp rebuke from the judge who sentenced him to 6 years in prison. -- Alejandro Bautista pleaded guilty to criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse... [More family values]

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The Editors -- Family Security Foundation

Outrageous: DUI invader / child killer to be offered plea deal

In one of the more despicable acts committed in this Washington, DC-sanctioned illegal alien disaster that plagues our country and all law- abiding citizens within it, today in Sanford, North Carolina, an illegal alien named Pastor Rios Sanchez, killer of three American children, will be offered an opportunity to walk away...

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WorldNetDaily.com

Military aid to Mexico on SPP summit agenda

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico is concluding discussions with the Mexican government of President Felipe Calderón to provide U.S. military assistance to assist Mexico in combating Mexican drug lords, according to the Democratic congressman from Laredo, Texas.

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Associated Press

Mexican invader pleads guilty in drunk-driving deaths of teens

Virginia Beach, Va. -- An illegal Mexican [invader... criminal] pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of two Virginia Beach teens killed when the drunken man crashed into their car at a stoplight. -- Alfredo Ramos faces up to 40 years in prison, then deportation, on the two counts.

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Financial Times -- London

Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned

The US government is on a 'burning platform' of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country's top government inspector has warned.

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KOB-TV -- Albuquerque

APD will no longer report illegal aliens

Effective immediately, Albuquerque police officers who find illegal [aliens... criminals] will no longer contact either federal immigration agents or the border patrol. -- The new guidelines come six years after the Albuquerque City Council passed a resolution saying that no city resources will be used to go after [invaders]. [Also see: Family Values]

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Worcester (Massachusetts) Telegram

Illegal alien (criminal) sanctuary plan draws opposition

A move to have Worcester declared a sanctuary for illegal immigrants has drawn opposition from Mayor Konstantina B. Lukes and a promise by supporters to revise resolution language to make it clear that sanctuary does not mean the city will harbor criminals. -- Mrs. Lukes, in an interview last night, said illegal immigrants broke the law to get here...

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Donald A. Collins -- VDare.com

Dem sees big stress cracks in bridge to Amerca's future

As the Minneapolis bridge disaster aftermath gets into full media swing, we learn that (as usual) no one wants to take the blame for ignoring the danger signals. One expert I heard on NPR noted that the bridge, built in the 1960's, had been expected to serve 60,000 cars and trucks a day, but that at the time of the collapse it was serving 120,000 a day.

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New York Post

Newark mass-execution suspects have gang ties, locals say

As Newark cops yesterday continued hunting for three people suspected in a grisly schoolyard massacre there, residents said several of the men were part of a notorious street gang. -- It also emerged that one of the fugitives, Rodolfo Godinez, obtained a green card in 2001 and was allowed to stay in the United States despite later robbery and assault arrests...