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Headlines : Civil LibertiesBorder Patrol boarding buses far from borders
‘I mean you’re hunting – you’re catching criminal aliens, and when you catch someone like that, boy, it feels awfully good.’ – Border Patrol agent
The authors of this article, Caroline Kim and Jenna Loyd, are members of the Syracuse-based Detainment Task Force. This report is based on the investigative work of this group. They are monitoring the work on “inland” Border Patrol agents who have recently been boarding buses around Syracuse and Rochester – quite far from any border.
Moreover, the group reports that the actions of Border Patrol agents appear to follow the pattern of racial profiling, at least in some cases. Those speaking Spanish or wearing headscarves are more likely to be requested to prove their citizenship.
As Americans are currently not required to carry ID at all times, it is questionable to say the least for government agents to behave as if this were untrue – unless it is an “educational policy” of a sort.
The second page of the article includes a video.
[Posted By Beagle17]Republished from ColorLines Magazine
In December 2007, Artemio and two of his friends were traveling by bus through Syracuse, New York on their way to their homes in Mexico. Rather than celebrating Christmas with their families, however, the three men were arrested by immigration agents at a bus station. They were then detained at a county jail before being transferred to the ICE facility in Batavia, New York, and eventually deported to Mexico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, also known as the Border Patrol, confirms that its agents in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo check the citizenship status of travelers passing through by bus and train every day. These three cities are within 100 miles of the US-Canadian border. But more important than the border zone is the location of these cities on a major transportation corridor linking the Northeast (New York City and Boston) with the Midwest (Cleveland and Chicago). Border Patrol agents use Syracuse’s location as the functional equivalent of the border to police people traveling within the interior of the country.
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i wonder what the 500-800 concentration camps in North America are for…
cite plz
Operation Endgame
http://www.endgameplan.info/listofcamps.html
I COULD have saved my Lolz quota for the day, if only I had stopped reading at:
“Alaska: Wilderness – East of Anchorage. No roads, Air & Railroad access only. Estimated capacity of 500,000.”
I would post “cite plz” on that page you linked but as there is no spot there to do so, I will just point you to my previous post.
http://cryptogon.com/docs/endgame.pdf
http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps.htm
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/concentration.html
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm
Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US
we have seen this happen a lot here in Erie as well. border patrol seems to be covering the entire city, and patrolling which border? i am not sure. they have been racially profiling people left and right, and arresting people in large numbers.
i wonder what the 500-800 concentration camps in North America are for…
Let history be our guide.
Former Congressman Warns Of Martial Law Camps In America
I guess the perpetual deniers will just have to experience it for themselves, eh Floyd? It’s this infectious, crippling historical amnesia retarding our resistance to the same old institutionalized psychopathy on steroids. Thugs blowing your brains out in front of your kids while gang raping your wife = major lolz. (not for you cuz you’re dead)
Well shined boots stomping on human faces forever = comedy gold.
Solzhenitsyn was all about the lulz.
Cuz you know, the people would see it coming, right? Ya, just like the Germa…err, Sov..err, Chi…errr, Br..Ser..uh, Kor…Camb…Bur….ah. shit
Heh.
I live in the largest border town in the US. I don’t see, nor do I hear from any corner, any out of the ordinary activity by the Border Patrol. Could be missing the nose on the face, but I kinda doubt it. I do try to keep at least one eye on my nose as much as possible.
Further, the (DRO) is about illegal immigrants, not U.S. citizens from what I can tell. That dot has not been connected.
I see a ten year plan — cooked up by a retired (automatic hire) military guy — that has five years to run. Being that there’s not one shred of evidence to prove these camps are active (to the contrary it would seem), I’d say that plan is shelved.
The Haliburton contract is a CONTINGENCY — No $$$$$ unless they are actually providing the services.
Considering the majority of the Executive orders cited were put in place by JFK in the middle of the Cold War and just prior to the Cuban Missile crisis, I’d say it was a prudent move at the time.
Sure this COULD happen —- If it actually does? I’ll roll with it after I pick myself up off the ground, escape if need be, and head to the homestead. That is, once I get the sky off the top of my back.
Sure this COULD happen
Is in the process of happening. You have but to observe the trends and seek to understand the nature of psychopathy and it’s documented influence on organizational, hierarchical systems such as business and government. Then you will see how our current course towards abject totalitarianism is a fore drawn conclusion, and why history is replete with variations on the same sad story.
The conditioning of a psychopathic mercenary army is running along right on schedule. Blackwater is leeching its filth on domestic soil, slipped like an ace of clubs into the so called war on drugs. Convicted felons are being hired in unprecedented numbers to fill the ranks of our new masters. The corrupt receive the promotions and the pathologicals rise to the top. Thousands of pastors have been recruited to compel their flocks to submit to being torn from their loved ones…. It’s all going somewhere . Where does it look like its going?
I’ll roll with it after I pick myself up off the ground, escape if need be, and head to the homestead. That is, once I get the sky off the top of my back.
The sky always was falling, just not all at once, and now you have your head in the clouds, and your world keeps on getting smaller, and many have mistaken this for a replicate of heaven. Some of us are crouching down and can see the scene, we have our feet firm on the ground and we are course from crying out. It’s the same wolf I’ve been warning you about for a while now. While you were busy in the pasture he took over the farm, now you’ve changed the channel several times but the sensation is persistent. You can’t help but feel the fence around you never existed. You are a cow now, 2 + 2 = 4 no more, 4 legs good and 2 are very baaad, freedom forgotten was never had.
Ya know, I was going to give a response to your post, bodo. I did view Naomi’s video in case you should wonder.
However, after considering a number of things — what’s the point, being one — I decided that I made a mistake.
I violated a commitment I made to a fellow GNN’er, who I have a great deal of respect for, to keep my posting commentary confined to matters that pertain strictly to the topic of ….
HEMP for Victory !!!
That said, I am publicly reaffirming that commitment. I encourage anyone to call me out, should I stray again.
Thanks for keeping your eye on our impending death march to the gas chambers and what ever other special prizes we have waiting for us in the concentration camps.
Lastly I stand by my comments on this topic.