Our government needs an overhaul and soon.

Not only are they doing basically nothing but throw their hands in the air and say illegals are here and oh well, but now they’re providing the locations of the minutemen on the border to the Mexican government. I’m sure you’ve heard of the Mexican government. They hand out a brochure on how to beat our border patrol.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants’ rights are being observed.

“It’s not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be,” Mario Martinez said Monday.

“This … simply makes two basic statements — that we will not allow any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government to interview the person.”

Minuteman members were not so sanguine about the arrangement, however, saying that reporting their location to Mexican officials nullifies their effectiveness along the border and could endanger their lives.

“Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were all the time,” said Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. “It’s unbelievable that our own government agency is sending intelligence to another country. They are sending intelligence to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into the hands of criminal cartels.

“They just basically endangered the lives of American people.”

There’s no doubt that to a certain degree, Chris Simcox is being somewhat melodramatic, it is pretty obvious where the interests of our government lie, and it isn’t in even trying to control the borders. Instead of watching the border, the border patrol is keeping its eyes on American citizens who are protecting the border that they refuse to protect.

This is a frightening abuse of authority, a frightening undermining of our laws, and a frighteningly disgusting display of pandering to lawbreakers.

And it’s done by the people charged with protecting our borders.

DailyBulletin.com via Drudge

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