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	Border Patrol
		Dale Swancutt, local Border Patrol researcher, says the agents were known as "inspectors." When they joined the service, they received a badge, a pistol, and oats and hay for their horses, which they had to provide themselves.
		David Hellyer, another Border Patrol historian, say sign cutting is an ancient Indian art, and the "experienced cutter becomes a student of nature, an amateur weather forecaster, an expert in desert lore." Shelby adds, "We had a four-man station and had to cover 58 miles of river and about 106 miles of 'drag' roads.
		The Border Patrol is trying everything from the latest computers to horse patrols, which were doubled to 16 rides in April 1996.
	www.epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/monicaw/borderlands/14_border_patrol.htm (1567 words)

	Border Patrol Officer Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Patrol Inspector Graham, who was standing on the shore a few feet from the boat, flashed his light on the occupants and observed that an individual known to him as Vet Brown was standing in the center of the boat with a.45 caliber revolver aimed at Inspector Roberts.
		Patrol Inspector Scotten was shot and killed in the early morning of July 20, 1929, during a gun battle following the ambush of Scotten and three other Patrol Inspectors at the upper Los Pompos crossing on the Rio Grande River, near San Elizario, Texas, by Mexican alien smugglers numbering 15 or 20.
		Patrol Inspector William L. Sills was killed on January 17, 1940, while on night patrol duty at a crossing on the Rio Grande River in the vicinity of La Grulla, Texas.
	www.borderpatrolmuseum.com /2003memorial/complete.htm (9650 words)

	Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 13, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.
		Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar at the agency's Washington headquarters called the accusations "outright wrong," saying that supervisors at the Naco station had not blocked agents from making arrests and that the station's 350 agents were being "supported in carrying out" their duties.
		During the Minuteman vigil, Border Patrol supervisors in Arizona discounted their efforts, saying a drop in apprehensions during their protest was because of the Mexican government's deployment of military and police south of the targeted area and a new federal program known as the Arizona Border Control Initiative that brought manpower increases to the state.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20050513-122032-5055r.htm (815 words)

	United States Border Patrol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Border Patrol was founded on May 28, 1924 as an agency of the United States Department of Labor.
		The priority mission of the Patrol, as a result of the 9/11 attacks and its merging into DHS, is to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States of America.
		However, the Border Patrol's traditional mission remains as the deterrence, detection and apprehension of illegal immigrants and individuals involved in the illegal drug trade who generally enter the United States other than through designated ports of entry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Border_Patrol (2560 words)

	Border Patrol's 'progress' unclear
		Top U.S. Border Patrol officials say they've gained greater "operational control" along the Southwestern border, even as the number of arrests of undocumented immigrants has remained virtually unchanged in the past year and the death toll has broken all records.
		While Bonner asserted that a recent drop in border arrests is a sign of success, it's difficult for the public to measure, in part because of the agency's refusal to disclose its internal gauges of effectiveness.
		The Border Patrol keeps internal estimates for the number of undocumented immigrants believed to have slipped into the country on a daily basis, known as the "get-away ratio" but has declined repeated requests by The Arizona Republic and other media to disclose those numbers.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/news/articles/0923border-spin.html (964 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Mexicans shoot at Border Patrol
		According to L. Keith Weeks, vice president of the National Border Patrol Union Local 1613 in San Diego, Calif., two border patrolmen who had just disembarked from a "clearly marked Border Patrol helicopter" immediately came under fire from a 10-man unit of what appeared to be soldiers with the Mexican army.
		On March 14, Mexican soldiers crossed the border in two Mexican army Humvees, firing on a Border Patrol vehicle near Santa Teresa, N.M. Border Patrol union officials said the Mexicans chased the Americans over a mile onto U.S. soil.
		Border Patrol officials in March confirmed that the Juarez cartel, one of Mexico's biggest drug gangs, has placed a bounty of $200,000 on U.S. lawmen.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15576 (588 words)

	USATODAY.com - Despite new technology, Border Patrol overwhelmed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, says the Border Patrol has "reliable intelligence that there are terrorists living in South America, assimilating the culture and learning the language" in order to blend in with Mexicans crossing the border.
		Along King's helicopter route, roughly 7 miles of the border are marked by car barriers — 3- to 4-foot high, cement-filled pieces of casing pipe sunk deep in concrete and set every couple of feet.
		The Border Patrol would like the barrier extended, but the Army engineering units and National Guard troops who did the hard work of installing the pipes over the past two years are no longer available.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-02-22-border-patrol_x.htm (1374 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		In 1932 the patrol was placed under the authority of two directors, one in charge of the Mexican border office at El Paso, the other in charge of the Canadian border office at Detroit.
		The same year, border patrol officers were first permitted to board and search a conveyance for illegal immigrants anywhere in the United States.
		The border patrol of the 1990s carries out its functions with a variety of devices, including helicopters, blimps, airplanes, radar, floodlights, motion detectors, cameras, informants, dogs, various vehicles, and fences and walls.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/UU/ncujh.html (1584 words)

	Deport the Border Patrol!--x
		Border Patrol goons are the scum of the Earth.
		There are thousands of innocent drug smugglers languishing in prison because of the Border Patrol, and thousands of innocent migrants get sent back to wretched Third World conditions, and the BP goons think they've got it tough with new policies.
		Even when the Border Patrol rescues people stranded in the wilderness, it is the fault of the Border Patrol that the people had to take that detour instead of crossing in a better place.
	deporttheborderpatrol.com (2195 words)

	US Border Patrol Overview
		During the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security, the U.S Border Patrol, along with the legacy-INS inspection division, the legacy-U.S. Customs inspection division, and the Department of Agriculture’s plant and animal inspection service were merged into a new agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, also known as CBP.
		Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol are doing everything possible with the resources available to them to secure the borders of the United States of America against the unknown.
		The only men and women who protect our borders -- and thus our country -- and the priceless hopes and dreams of those million men who gave their lives for us -- are the men and women of the United States Border Patrol.
	www.usborderpatrol.com /borderframe090.htm (943 words)

	LA Weekly - Girls Gone Border Patrol! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Naco, the border is where illegal immigrants and the Border Patrol come to perform their intricate ballet of catch-and-release.
		Last year alone, the Border Patrol made 1.2 million arrests, yet it is estimated that for every one arrest made, two or three border crossers managed to avoid detection.
		Despite the headaches they create for the Mexican side of Naco â” including Border Patrol escalation and political chafing with their neighbor to the north â” illegal immigrants are usually peaceful and keep to themselves.
	www.laweekly.com /news/news/girls-gone-border-patrol/14089 (3244 words)

	The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border: Part 1 / Interview with Maria Jiménez - In Motion Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That problem, the problem of the national perception of viewing the border as a war zone and immigrants as enemies and subsequently border communities - you can conclude when you have military patrols in your town that somehow somebody thought you were the enemies of this country -- that was why we were losing.
		The militarized borders, the walls, the agents, are really to impede the mobility of the international working poor who attempt to cross borders.
		The Border Patrol is such an ingrained part of our existence in the United States, I tell them, I can't imagine living in the United States without the INS.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /mj1.html (4227 words)

	ESRI News - Fall 2001 ArcNews -- U.S. Border Patrol Maximizes Enforcement with GIS
		The San Diego (California) Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol--which is responsible for 60 miles of tough terrain, 900 seismic sensors, and more than 2,000 agents--has some of the most diversified working conditions of any sector within the patrol.
		The team, made up of Border Patrol agents and enforcement officers, has the responsibility of incorporating and maintaining the most up-to-date technological implementations.
		Dan Isenberg, Border Patrol agent and the GIS lead, says, "With the evolution of the real-time ICAD system, agents have situational awareness prior to their deployment into the field.
	www.esri.com /news/arcnews/fall01articles/usborderpatrol.html (1001 words)

	CNN.com - Authority of Border Patrol agents restored - Aug. 20, 2003
		The head of Customs and Border Protection has restored the authority of Southern California Border Patrol agents to question people on city streets and workplaces about their immigration status.
		In a telephone interview from Washington, Robert Bonner, a Customs veteran who took over the Border Patrol when the Department of Homeland Security was created in March, said he had done away with Veal's directive.
		Previously, the Border Patrol was part of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which was abolished under the new department.
	cnn.com /2003/US/West/08/20/border.patrol.ap/index.html (419 words)

	USATODAY.com - Border Patrol catches, then releases, illegals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		U.S. Border Patrol agents continue to catch and deport waves of Mexican illegals, who last year accounted for most of the 905,000 people caught sneaking into the USA along the 2,000-mile Southwestern border.
		Officials in U.S. border towns and other critics say the policy threatens local residents' safety and undermines security along the Southwestern border at a time when counterterrorism officials believe al-Qaeda operatives could be focusing on Mexico as an entry point to the USA.
		U.S. border agents in Texas say the alert, which expired Jan. 9, and the increased border security that accompanied it triggered a decline in illegals crossing the border.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-02-02-border-cover_x.htm (2083 words)

	DailyBulletin.com - Convicted border agent tells his story
		As a Border Patrol agent, Ramos has been involved in the capture of nearly 100 drug smugglers and the seizure of untold thousands of pounds of narcotics.
		He also was nominated for Border Patrol Agent of the Year in March 2005, though the nomination was withdrawn after details of the Aldrete-Davila incident came out.
		TJ Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing border agents, said the Border Patrol's official pursuit policy handcuffs agents in the field.
	www.dailybulletin.com /news/ci_4141562 (2620 words)

	U.S. Border Patrol in S. California developing deadly but ineffective Operation Gatekeeper/Interview with Roberto ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is in conjunction with the border fence which is a ten foot high steel wall, and with Congressman Hunter’s plan for a triple fence.
		In fact, the police and the Border Patrol even shot at each other and were wounded, but they had flack jackets (bullet proof vests).
		In the early ’90s, they were reinstated as the Border Crime Intervention Unit but the Border Patrol and police would not work together because we put pressure on them for the shootings.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /rm99.html (2904 words)

	SECURING THE BORDER: A CHRONOLOGY
		Additional Border Patrol agents are needed to achieve control in California and Texas, to stop the emerging crisis in Arizona and New Mexico, to combat smuggling along the Florida and Gulf coasts, and to shore up the severely undermanned northern border from New England and New York through the Midwest to Washington state.
		Yet there is no indication that your border strategy recognizes the emergency situation caused by low Border Patrol recruitment and high attrition or is animated by any sense of urgency.
		January 14, 1997: INS announces its intent to deploy 714 of 1,000 Border Patrol agents funded in the FY1997 Appropriations bill, H.R. Of these 714 agents, 237 are to be deployed in California.
	www.house.gov /hunter/border1.html (2991 words)

	US Border Patrol's newest tool: a drone \| csmonitor.com
		So far, the US Border Patrol has one unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, and it is equipped solely with a camera for surveillance.
		With the numbers illegally crossing the US border with Mexico remaining high, estimated at 1 million people each year, the Border Patrol has increasingly turned to technology to help secure the 2,000-mile stretch.
		The UAV will be operated by a Border Patrol agent acting as the pilot, who sits in a cockpit-like control station at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The aircraft is flown by remote control and equipped with an electro-optic sensor that can send back images, day or night.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/1207/p02s01-usmi.htm (772 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Border Patrol
		This encouraged illegal aliens to keep trying until they were successful in traversing that corridor beyond which they could live and reside as long as they wish and do whatever they want, while the services branch of INS does everything it can to make their status legal.
		The U.S. Border Patrol must be allowed to do its job in strict accordance to the law without regard to political correctness and without regard to state, city and local boundaries.
		That cannot be accomplished while our borders are overrun by aliens of every nationality and while bureaucrats place unreasonable restrictions on how agents operate.
	www.snopes.com /politics/soapbox/borderpatrol.asp (2260 words)

	CNN.com - Border Patrol agent attacked - Feb. 13, 2003
		A group of suspected illegal immigrants trying to sneak across the Mexican border attacked a U.S. Border Patrol agent and knocked him unconscious, officials said.
		She said the agent was running after a group of people suspected of illegally crossing the border Tuesday night when six immigrants attacked him in a remote desert area about two miles north of the border.
		Border Patrol spokesman Frank Amarillas said such skirmishes are rare.
	cnn.com /2003/US/Southwest/02/13/agent.attacked.ap/index.html (225 words)

	RLSC - US Border PAtrol
		This guide was produced as a public service by the United States Border Patrol –Rangeley Station.
		Anyone riding the cleared area along the border (slash) could be in violation of U.S. or Canadian law.
		Border Patrol station or call our 24-hour toll-free number at 1-800-851-8727.
	www.rangeleysnowmobile.com /usbp.htm (233 words)

	Michelle Malkin: OUR BORDER PATROL...OR MEXICO'S? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		TJ Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing more than 10,000 Border Patrol agents, said agents have complained for years about the Mexican consulate's influence over the agency.
		Border Patrol agents interviewed by the Daily Bulletin said they have been asked to report to sector headquarters the location of all civilian volunteer groups, but to not file the groups' names in reports if they spot illegal immigrants.
		It reports that our OWN border patrol agency is informing the Mexican government of WHERE the minutemen are patroling the border.
	michellemalkin.com /archives/005164.htm (828 words)

	GW Online : Warhammer : Border Patrol
		The Border Patrol rules make it possible to play fast and fun games of Warhammer Fantasy Battle that should take no longer than 40 minutes to complete.
		The rules for Border Patrol were first printed in White Dwarf 285.
		When you play Border Patrol it's important to remember that these games approach Warhammer in a way that it was not originally conceived by the designers.
	uk.games-workshop.com /warhammer/border-patrol/1 (397 words)

	NBC: Fewer border detentions - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com
		Border agents tell NBC News that since April, they've been forced to release most illegal immigrants back onto American streets within hours of catching them — even some who are criminals or from countries known to produce terrorists.
		One Vermont sheriff says border patrol detainees in his jail have dropped 75 percent since April. "I was told kind of unofficially by telephone that the monies had run out," says Franklin County Sheriff Robert Norris.
		Along the New York and Vermont borders alone, at least 11 released were from so-called countries of special interest, including Pakistan and Morocco. T.J. Bonner of the Border Patrol Agents Association, who represents border patrol agents nationwide, says, "It's simply mind-numbing to the agents.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4962320 (558 words)

	National Border Patrol Council - Local 1613 (San Diego, CA)
		National Border Patrol Council - Local 1613 is the exclusive representative of approximately 1500 non-supervisory Border Patrol Agents and support personnel assigned to the San Diego Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol.
		The U.S. Border Patrol is under the direction of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
		The National Border Patrol Council and Local 1613 are currently reviewing the matter to determine a course of action.
	www.nbpc1613.org (873 words)

	ExpectMore.gov: Border Patrol
		The Border Patrol are the agents tasked with and committed to protecting our Nation's borders between the Ports-of-Entry.
		The Border Patrol needs to improve the outcome measures associated with their program and set ambitious targets and timeframes for its long-term measures.
		The Border Patrol will continue to develop and maintain cost effective measures such as the reduction of annual operating and maintenance costs associated with Border Patrol facilities.
	www.whitehouse.gov /omb/expectmore/summary.10001076.2005.html (189 words)

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