The U.S. Border Patrol agent in a Chevy Tahoe patrol truck arrived to our location on the border to confirm, the word had been put-out over his radio that Minutemen and Border Patrol Auxiliary (BPAUX) personnel were in position along the California stretch, a breeding ground for drug smugglers and illegal aliens waiting to cross. Each mission requires Border Patrol Auxiliary communications section to contact the U.S. Border Patrol (Sector) with vehicle description and proposed locations for the border watch. Often enough, Border Patrol agents provide intel to help serve the overall mission.
“Keep your eye on panel 1936” the agent instructed us, an opening in the old metal fence that separates the United States from Mexico. “I just had a group pass through there this morning and more are expected,” he said. I wanted to shake his hand, as I have often done in the past, but with the potential flu pandemic scare and knowing that these brave agents are hands-on with illegal aliens, I elected to just say “thanks for your service.”
Each fence panel has a number, and “1936” was just east of our position. From our location, we had a perfect view of the hill pictured below. The only physical recognition that divides the U.S. from Mexico (at the top of the hill) is a U.S. flag on a pole.
The fence is old....it has several miles of gaps, plenty of holes and new holes are made all the time. Illegal aliens wait for nightfall, but today the push was on, by the spotters seen standing on top of the hill (pictured below). More groups were arriving from the south, and the five groups we were holding back, eventually had to make their move. All five groups were apprehended by U.S. agents, of which several individuals carrying large backpacks were carrying drugs.
Groups, backing-up at the border is an inconvenience for the Mexican border ranchers that facilitate their movement with intel provided by trained spotters with radios and binoculars. BPAUX teams routinely intercept their communications effectively, as we did this past weekend.
Thursday night was a washout due to fog, but U.S. Border Patrol agents were successful. Camp Vigilance, the home to the Minutemen and Border Patrol Auxiliary (BPAUX), located just north of the border, began seeing volunteers from several states arriving on Friday for a complete shutdown of the border in that area of California. Additional BPAUX operations will begin in Arizona, beginning May 2nd.
Teams of BPAUX volunteer agents and Minutemen were assigned to selected “hotspots” in and around the border. 24-hour shifts were consistent throughout the weekend watch, and together.....they effectively stopped groups from entering by repositioning volunteer units back and forth to secure gaps in the fence. The frustration on the Mexican side was obvious, and two different assaults by drug smugglers, using rocks, caused vehicle damage, but no injuries. A direct conflict was aborted immediately when volunteers had to respond in defense with weapons raised at eye level. The rock throwers ran back into Mexico.
On the return trip to Arizona, the U.S. Border Patrol was busy with checkpoints at several undisclosed locations. As I pulled up to one aggressive checkpoint, with all windows down for the agents to easily see inside, I was asked if I was a U.S. Citizen. I responded in the affirmative and he replied, “thank you.”
I was about to pull ahead when he quickly said, “Hold it!” I looked forward as a black man in handcuffs was being escorted directly in front of my vehicle. I looked at the agent with slight puzzlement, and he just said, “See….it’s not just Mexicans that come across, he’s Haitian!”
As I drove east on Interstate 8, I thought to myself of that typical “La Raza” line about those “poor undocumented workers just looking for a better life,” and the fact that I can’t even cough-up enough money right now for a ticket to Haiti, let alone a night in their hotels, which I have had to pay as much as $100 a night in Port-au-Prince in a previous life, and here I am looking at a Haitian man arrested, circumnavigating Florida through California to receive the benefits of amnesty, which our out-of-control congress will likely pass soon if we don’t get on the stick.
Mexicans are usually charged a fee of $1,500 to $3,000 to be escorted into the United States. It is likely, the Haitian man paid as much as $10,000 dollars, plus his airline ticket to Mexico City, to only be arrested at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.
As I proceeded east, I also had to wonder if that last lunch I had at the interstate exit would put me in the hospital soon, or even dead, since nobody in Washington has time to worry about our border crisis and the potential flu pandemic. However, scaring thousands of Americans in New York City with a nifty unannounced flyover by Airforce One and two F-16 jet fighters in trail, is par for the course, while many Americans wonder if the flu scare is just hype for something else coming our way.
The more ridiculous it gets everyday, the more I realize the need for every patriot from coast to coast to be prepared, knowledgeable, and ready. The border crisis is not going away, the government will continue to spread gloom and doom, and in the end, you will be standing in a line, begging for that vaccination and anything else the goons in Washington can dream up. It’s time to wake-up and realize the fun and games are over, it’s time to get our country back on track, and it begins by demanding border security and no amnesty for the 30 million plus illegal aliens in our country. Otherwise, a worse (predicted) pandemic flu crossing the border will kill most of us, and maybe that is what THEY want, while bringing-in martial law…Katrina style.
Dave Bertrand, News That Matters can be reached at: NewsThatMatters@Live.com
