Immigration Watch International (2): Illegal immigrants swarm border wall, throw sand, rocks and water bottles in ugly clash with Border Patrol agents trying to stop them

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Illegal immigrants swarm border wall, throw sand, rocks and water bottles in ugly clash with Border Patrol agents trying to stop them

Jaw-dropping video captured a confrontation between US Border Patrol agents and illegal immigrants who tried to force their way into the US on the New Mexico border near El Paso, Texas.

Aerial footage shared by the Texas Department of Public Safety Thursday shows green-uniformed Border Patrol agents on foot and ATV racing towards the border wall as it's swarmed on the Mexican side.

At least half a dozen men on the Mexican side climbed the border barrier- which is anywhere from 19 to 30 feet tall - using a make-shift ladder.

As agents started taking migrants into custody, smugglers being paid to sneak the migrants in began throwing rocks, sand and even water bottles at the federal officers - which is a crime under U.S. law.

One full water bottle is chucked over the wall in an effort to stop the immigration agents from doing their job.

In another bizarre scene, a second water bottle is handed over to a man perched on top of the border wall.

He appears to consider hurling it at an agent, before handing it to another man who instead opens it and takes a sip out of it.

Later a border officer on an ATV tires to pull down the ladder to prevent others from climbing the border wall.

A smuggler sitting on top of the wall is holding on to it and resists.

He and the agent engage in a tug of war, with the smugglers ultimately giving up before retreating back into their country.

The incident happened near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in New Mexico, less than ten miles outside of Texas.

Border Patrol's El Paso sector is currently the third busiest border crossing spot along the southern border with the Mexico-- behind the San Diego and Tucson sectors.

The region includes the West Texas city of El Paso and all of Southern New Mexico.

Migrants crossing into Texas's neighboring state are not looking to peacefully surrender to Border Patrol agents.

Instead, the Santa Teresa area is a well-known smuggling spot, where migrants who are not seeking asylum look to evade Border Patrol agents all together.

In the most recent figures released by the federal agency, 30,393 migrants crossed the border in the El Paso sector in April.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-13456469/US-border-patrol-illegal-immigrants-confrontation-Mexico-border-El-Paso-Texas.html

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Illegal immigrants swarm border wall, throw sand, rocks and water bottles in ugly clash with Border Patrol agents trying to stop them

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