EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Sheriff Cites Flood of Border Agents Confirming Feds' No-Apprehension Policy

Like we say down South, there is more than one way to skin a cat. If you want to be able to report lower numbers of arrests at or near the border, don't make any. It doesn't actually do anything to decrease the number of criminals entering our Country, but it sure does make a good talking point for janet napalitano.

The job of a Border Patrol Agent is dangerous enough without the assholes make it even more difficult by forcing the agents to approach these people two or three times in the same day. It also doesn't help that the atf allows guns to flow freely into the regions south of our border.

It's all about politics people, nothing more. If the agents are forced to arrest fewer of these illegal scumbags, then obama and napalitano can claim that they are doing something. The tension eases and they can begin to bring up the amnesty issue again. It mind games and politics. Don't fall for it. They are liars and cheats.

They play on our fears and our sympathies. If they can't get one they go after the other.

I have no sympathy for illegal aliens, they should force reform in their own country instead of bankrupting ours...

By Jana Winter - FoxNews

An Arizona sheriff says he has been flooded with calls and emails of support from local and federal agents who back his claims that the U.S. Border Patrol has effectively ordered them to stop apprehending illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border.

“Upper management has advised supervisors to have agents ‘turn back South’ (TBS) the illegal aliens (aka bodies) they detect attempting to unlawfully enter the country … at times you even hear supervisors order the agents over the radio to 'TBS' the aliens instead of catching them,” one San Diego border agent wrote in an email to Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever.

“This only causes more problems as the aliens, as you know, don't just go back to Mexico and give up. They keep trying, sometimes without 10 minutes in-between attempts, to cross illegally,” continued the email, which was among a number of communications to Dever reviewed by FoxNews.com. “This makes the job for agents more dangerous. Not only are the aliens more defiant, they also begin to feel like they can get away with breaking our federal laws.”

The email is one of more than 100 messages Dever said he received from active and retired Border Patrol agents and law enforcement officers from across the country. Many wrote of what they said was their own experience and first-hand knowledge of Border Patrol’s efforts to reduce apprehension numbers by making fewer arrests.

FoxNews.com first reported this month that Dever said several Border Patrol officials, including at least one senior supervisor, told him they had been directed to keep the number of border apprehensions down by chasing illegal immigrants back toward Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has recently cited a reduction in border apprehensions as evidence of an increasingly secure border.

Three days after FoxNews.com’s initial report, Border Patrol chief Michael Fisher sent a letter to Dever in which he denied the accusations and invited the sheriff on a ride-along with federal agents at border.

"That assertion is completely, 100 percent false," Fisher wrote in the letter. "That it comes from a fellow law enforcement official makes it especially offensive."

But accounts from law enforcement officials around the country continue to pour in supporting Dever and the conversations he says he had with Border Patrol officers, including at least one supervisor, about keeping arrest numbers down.

“This is nothing new, during my career with the border patrol, this was done regularly,” said another email to Dever reviewed by FoxNews.com. “By assigning agents to different tasks, locations, etc., the apprehensions can be increased or decreased dramatically,” wrote Dan McCaskill Jr., a retired Border Patrol agent who worked in the Anti-Smuggling Unit.

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Napolitano: US Border Towns with Mexico Are Safe

I'm willing to bet there are a lot of people along the border that will disagree with napolitano's assessment.

What do you think? It seems like every few days we hear of some violence related to smuggling of either drugs or people. There are areas of our own Country that are off limits to us due to these activities. And we keep hearing how safe it is.

It's so bad in South Texas, the Texas Department of Agriculture has developed a website where ranchers can document and share their stories about encounters with drug cartels and other other illegal aliens.

Protect Your Texas Border

And we hear how safe the border is. Who is it, exactly, that napolitano and her flunkies are trying to fool? We are being treated like idiots. This administration thinks we are too stupid to see what is going on in this Country. The sheeples may believe what NBC, ABC, MSNBC and CNN tell them. Those of us with the ability to think for ourselves know the truth, and it's not what we are hearing from obama, biden, pelosi and napolitano...

By Juan Carlos Llorca, Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Thursday that security on the southern U.S. border "is better now than it ever has been" and that violence from neighboring Mexico hasn't spilled over in a serious way.

Napolitano spoke at the Bridge of The Americas border crossing, after a meeting with the mayors of the border towns of El Paso, Nogales, Ariz., and Yuma, Ariz. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sanchez and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin also were present.

Napolitano said the Department of Homeland Security will deploy 250 more border agents and expects to have 300 more under their next budget if it's approved. She stated that Homeland Security is investing "millions of dollars in the side of commerce and trade" to improve infrastructure and technology along the border.

However, she added that there is a need to correct wrong impressions about the border region. Napolitano said border towns are safe for travel, trade and commerce. She noted that the total value of imports crossing the Southwest border was up 22 percent in fiscal year 2010, she said.

"There is a perception that the border is worse now than it ever has been. That is wrong. The border is better now than it ever has been," she said.

The perception that the violence in Mexico has spilled over to bordering U.S. cities is "wrong again," Napolitano said. Violent crime rates have remained flat or decreased in border communities in the Southwest, she said. However, she recognized that "there is much to do with (their) colleagues in Mexico in respect to the drug cartels" that are largely responsible for the unprecedented wave of violence in that country.

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