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In reply to the discussion: CNN Breaking: 60,000 federal workers responsible for securing borders to be furloughed [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)From the time the Homeland Security law was drafted, Indian tribes were specifically and quite deliberately treated as local governments, so that Jack Abramoff could make money off of tribes by pretending to try to get them federal funding.
But Abramoff got busted instead, and the GOP ran like hell from the crime scene, never fixed the problem, and refuses to acknowledge that all of their supposed work improving border security is completely undone because a grifter's operation was suspended in mid-snooker.
As a result, the two dozen Indian reservations that border on another nation or the open ocean have never been secured, which of course has been perfectly well known to everyone wishing to enter or leave illegally for the past twelve years, which is why not one actual terrorist has been apprehended entering or leaving the United States in all of that time.. The border patrol thing was just a sham.
It never had any real purpose or importance because nobody with an actual plan would make the mistake of wandering into the areas of strong security, not when they can move a few miles over and evade a single overworked Tribal Police Officer covering a dozen miles of wide-open border.