March 10, 2014

David M. Adam, Jr.

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From: "Joseph R. John" <jrjassoc@earthlink.net>

To: jrj@combatveteransforcongress.org

Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 11:26:55 AM

Subject: DHS Orders Border Control, Retreat From Illegal Throwing Rocks and Drug Smugglers Vehicles

 

One of our responsibilities is to provide facts on issues that may

negatively affect the safety of the Republic, in order that American

Citizens will be provided with the truth on issues that the Obama

administration and the left of center liberal media establishment, works at

covering up many of those facts daily.  The below listed published article

provides complete details on our summary of the new Rules Of Engagement

issued to the US Border Patrol.

 

On the first day of his appointment, new Rules of Engagement were issued to

the Border Patrol by Obama's newly appointed Secretary of Homeland Security,

Jeh Johnson, who has no Law Enforcement experience and is the first African

American to head DHS.   The new Rules Of Engagement, bars self-defense from

rock-throwers, and match the recommendation of a report by an Illegal

Immigration advocacy groups and the Mexican government. They want to reduce

policing of illegal immigrants trying to illegally enter the United States

at the Mexican border.  Obama agrees with the new Rules Of Engagement and

desires for more lenient policing of illegal Immigrants violating Federal

Law at the US/Mexican border. The report by the

<http://www.policeforum.org/> Police Executive Research Forum was

commissioned by DHS, it encourages lawlessness at the border by Illegal

aliens, puts Border Patrolmen in much more danger, bars Border Patrolmen

from standing in front of smugglers' vehicles to prevent smugglers from

entering the United States, and prevents Border Patrolmen from shooting at

people who are attacking them with large rocks (those rock assaults have put

Border Patrolmen in the hospital with critical head injuries).  Three U.S.

Border Patrolmen were killed in recent years, including one who was shot

during a clash with drug smugglers carrying AK-47 assault weapons provided

to them by agents of the Obama administration's Fast and Furious illegal

drug running operation (the illegal Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation

continues to be covered up by Holder). The Border Patrol has been attacked

6,000 times since 2007, and they have been "assaulted with very large rocks"

1,713 times since 2010, resulting in the serious injury of Border Patrolmen.

Despite the 7,713 attacks on Border Patrolmen, they have only responded with

deadly force only 43 times----or 0.00056% of the time they were dangerously

attacked.

 

Instead of tighten up policing rules to protect the lives of Border

Patrolmen, Obama's newly appointed Secretary of Homeland Security is doing

exactly the opposite, he is putting them in more danger and telling them to

run away, and seek shelter from attack,  if they are attacked by Illegal

Immigrants.  According to

<http://articles.latimes.com/2014/feb/27/nation/la-na-border-killings-201402

27> a report in the Los Angeles Times, the new rules are being challenged by

mid-level DHS officials and Veteran Border Patrolmen, who argued that the

new rules barring self-defense from rock-throwers "could create a much more

dangerous environment, especially for agents operating in rural or desolate

areas, often alone, where concealment, cover and egress is not an option."

But Johnston overrode the internal opposition by Veteran Border Patrolmen,

and forced the implementation of the advocacy groups' new Rules Of

Engagement; Johnson demonstrated his incompetence on the first day on the

job by putting Federal law Enforcement lives more in danger.  The new Rules

Of Engagement will encourage drug cartels and human smuggling cartels in

Mexico to get much more aggressive.  These unconscionable new Rules Of

Engagement, should be grounds for Speaker Boehner to take action against DHS

for  intentionally putting the lives of Federal Law Enforcement Officers in

danger, and creating fear for the families of those dedicated Federal Law

Enforcement Officers. 

 

Obama is doing to Federal Law Enforcement Officers what he did to US Combat

Forces in Afghanistan, forcing new and very dangerous Rules Of Engagement on

them (those new and dangerous Rules Of Engagement in Afghanistan increased

personnel Killed In Action by casualties by 458%).  If the Speaker of the

House doesn't take "immediate" and "firm" action to oppose these new and

dangerous Rules Of Engagement for Border Patrolmen at the Mexican Border

that are preventing them from defending themselves and telling them to

"run", like the speaker has failed for 17 months to establish a Select House

Investigative Committee with subpoena authority on The Battle of Benghazi,

there should be a change in leadership in the House.

 

Joseph R. John, USNA '62

 

Capt              USN(Ret)

 

Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

 

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Fax: (619) 220-0109

 

 

 

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Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will

go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

-Isaiah 6:8

 

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The immigration bill currently moving through the Senate would nearly double

the number of Border Patrol agents.   

 

DHS tells American border guards to run away from illegal immigrants hurling

rocks at them, fleeing in vehicles

 

03/08/2014

 

 

 

 

 

http://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/user_photos/neilm-634827898-icon.jpg

 

Neil Munro

 

White House Correspondent

 

Top administration officials have directed 21,000 border patrol officers to

retreat whenever illegal immigrants throw rocks at them, and to avoid

getting in front of foreign drug-smugglers' vehicles as they head north with

their drug shipments.

 

"Agents shall not discharge firearms in response to thrown or hurled

projectiles. agents should obtain a tactical advantage in these situations,

such as seeking cover or distancing themselves," said

<http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/border_security/bs/uof14.ctt/uof14.pdf>

the instructions, issued Mar. 7, under the signature of Michael Fisher,

chief of U.S. Border Patrol.

 

Agents were also directed to keep their weapons holstered when drug

smugglers drive by.

 

Agents can't use guns against "a moving vehicle merely fleeing from agents,"

say the instructions.

 

The new instructions do allow agents to use guns to defend themselves from

vehicles that drive at them. "Agents shall not discharge their firearms at a

moving vehicle unless the agent has a reasonable belief that. deadly force

is being used against an agent," the new instructions say.

 

However, the instructions also suggest that officers be penalized if they

don't step back. Agents "should not place themselves in the path of a motor

vehicle or use their body to block a vehicle's path," according to new

instructions.

 

The new curbs were praised by advocates for greater immigration, including

Juanita Molina, director of the Border Action Network. New Jersey Democratic

Sen. Robert Menendez, and Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, according to the

<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-shootings-20140308,0,630084.stor

y#ixzz2vOlvoSJI> Los Angeles Times.

 

Menendez is one of the drafters of the June 2013 Senate immigration bill,

which would boost the inflow of legal immigrants and guest workers up to 40

million over the next decade. During the same period, roughly 40 million

Americans will turn 18.

 

The new rules were issued at the direction of Jeh Johnston, the new head of

the Department of Homeland Security.

 

The rules match the recommendation of a report by an advocacy group that

wants to reduce policing of illegal immigration.

 

The report by the  <http://www.policeforum.org/> Police Executive Research

Forum was commissioned by DHS, and it said border agents should be barred

from standing in front of smugglers' vehicles or from shooting at people who

are attacking them with rocks.

 

The commissioned report was challenged by mid-level DHS officials, who

argued that the rules barring self-defense from rock-throwers "could create

a more dangerous environment [especially for agents operating] in rural or

desolate areas, often alone, where concealment, cover and egress is not an

option," according to

<http://articles.latimes.com/2014/feb/27/nation/la-na-border-killings-201402

27> a report in the Los Angeles Times.

 

But Johnston overrode the internal response, and forced the implementation

of the advocacy groups' recommendations.

 

The PERF report was commissioned by top DHS leaders after advocates said

law-enforcement agents had killed roughly seven people a year along the

1,933-mile border in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The shootings came during 67

clashes with a huge stream of armed drug-smugglers and illegal immigrants.

 

Three U.S. border guards have been killed in recent years, including one who

was shot during a clash with drug smugglers carrying AK-47 assault weapons.

 

In a Friday news conference, Fisher told reporters that agents would be

equipped with short-range tasers and pepper spray, plus medium-range pellet

guns, to deter attacks.

 

But he also admitted that agents have been attacked 6,000 times since 2007.

They've been "assaulted by rocks" 1,713 times since 2010, and have responded

with deadly force only 43 times, he said.

 

The agents killed only 10 drug-smugglers and other attackers during the same

three-year period, Fisher said.

 

 

Read more:

<http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/08/dhs-tells-american-border-guards-to-run-a

way-from-illegal-immigrants/#ixzz2vT7YKnad>

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/08/dhs-tells-american-border-guards-to-run-aw

ay-from-illegal-immigrants/#ixzz2vT7YKnad