Mission of the Civil Homeland Defense Corps

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Mission of the Civil Homeland Defense Corps

The Mission of the Civil Homeland Defense Corps, headquartered in Tombstone, Arizona, is to report suspicious illegal activities to proper authorities and deter, by legal means, illegal aliens, drug traffickers and terrorists from entering the United States by physical presence along the immediate U.S. Mexican border. Citizen groups along the Canadian border and coastal areas are encouraged to operate with the same level of vigilance.
Concept

The Civil Homeland Defense Corps Area of Operations is the American border territory immediately adjacent to the U.S. border fence with Mexico and within Cochise County, Arizona. Volunteers have created a model that can be used by any group of concerned responsible citizens anywhere in the United States. All practical attempts will be made to operate within the immediate 60' wide strip next to the border fence. Any operations further distant from said 60' strip will be done only as terrain, safety and common sense dictate.

Civil Homeland Defense volunteers have recorded 4,048 peaceful, non-violent assists with Border Patrol and Customs agents of people illegally crossing our border with Mexico since November of 2002.

Since June 1, 2003, CHD Volunteers have made 157 Rescues of men, women and children who were provided life-saving water, first aid, blankets and food while volunteers waited for Border Patrol agents to arrive on scene to deport groups.

More troopers to train for immigration busts

Tuesday, February 22, 2005
VIVI ABRAMS
News staff writer

Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson said Monday he hopes Alabama�s system of using troopers to enforce immigration laws can be copied nationwide.
Hutchinson, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and the state Department of Public Safety announced plans to train 25 more troopers to recognize and detain illegal immigrants during traffic stops.
Alabama volunteered for the program in September 2003 and has 21 immigration-trained troopers. The troopers have referred 44 immigrants for federal prosecution in the past year and a half, said DPS Maj. Charles Andrews. Alabama and Florida are the only states to use troopers in immigration enforcement.
Hutchinson, who oversees border and transportation security for the Department of Homeland Security, was in Birmingham to learn about the program�s progress.
�This has been a very successful experience and we hope this will become a model for the nation,� Hutchinson said. �Homeland Security should be about expanding our partnerships with the states.�
Some immigration advocates and business supporters have opposed the program, saying it is not the best way to fight terrorism and hurts people who are here to work.
�We would hope Senator Sessions would work for immigration reform rather than looking at Alabama to address the immigration issue from the state level,� said Isabel Rubio, director of the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, who sent Sessions a letter in 2003 along with other organizations that opposed the program. She said Sessions never responded.
There are thought to be as many as 75,000 or 100,000 undocumented immigrants in the state, many of whom work in agriculture and construction. Sessions said he doesn�t think cracking down on immigrants more will hurt the state�s economy.
�That knife cuts two ways,� he said. Illegal immigrant labor �drives down wages for American people,� he said.
Sessions and Hutchinson said comprehensive reform won�t be possible until the state and federal governments prove they can enforce current immigration laws. President Bush has proposed a guest worker program to allow immigrants to work here for several years without fear of deportation. Sessions said he won�t support the proposal unless it includes sufficient enforcement rules.
Troopers who participate in the immigration enforcement program go through a five-week training session to learn how to distinguish immigration status and how to process, transport and detain criminal aliens.
Police chiefs oppose it:
The trained troopers have the authority to detain an immigrant for up to 72 hours until an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer comes to investigate. There are 28 agents in Mobile, eight in Birmingham and three in Montgomery who can respond, said ICE New Orleans Special Agent-in-Charge Mike Holt.
\ Andrews said the people apprehended since the program started include five previously deported immigrants who had felony convictions, a person who was wanted for armed robbery and possession of controlled substances, a man with a fraudulent resident alien card and someone who was carrying 9 pounds of marijuana.
He said he did not know offhand how many total immigrant arrests the troopers have made. In August, DPS announced that since September 2003 troopers had made 109 arrests resulting in 28 deportations.
Local law enforcement divisions are allowed to apply for immigration enforcement training but so far in Alabama state troopers are the only division to do so. The International Association of Chiefs of Police opposes such training, saying that acting as immigration officers could compromise police officers� ability to enforce other laws because it would make immigrants afraid to report crimes.
Andrews said the state plans to expand the number of county jails that are used to hold detained immigrants.

DIRECTORS OF CIA AND FBI WARN OF SECURITY THREAT AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER

Proposed FY 2006 Budget Slashes Funding for
Border Security
(Washington, D.C. � February 17, 2005) In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday, three of the nation�s highest ranking homeland security officials issued a chilling and unambiguous warning that al-Qaeda will exploit lax border enforcement to infiltrate terrorists and weaponry into the U.S. CIA Director Porter Goss, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Admiral James Loy, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security all warned that al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations will use our poorly guarded border with Mexico to launch another lethal attack on American soil.
According to Loy, intelligence reports �strongly suggest� al-Qaeda considers our southern border to be a point of vulnerability. Goss told the committee, �It may only be a matter of time before al-Qaeda or another group attempts to use chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons� against the U.S. Mueller warned that at the top of the FBI�s list of concerns is �the threat from covert al-Qaeda operatives inside the United States.�
In spite of these dire warnings, the Bush Administration�s proposed FY2006 budget neglects border security and other immigration enforcement priorities. Even the modest increase of 2,000 Border Patrol agents authorized by Congress in the intelligence reform bill passed in December is not being supported by the White House, which plans to fund only 200 new border guards. Instead of acting decisively to seal the border, President Bush has exacerbated the crisis by advocating a policy widely interpreted as an offer of amnesty for just about anyone who can gain entry to the U.S.
�The danger posed by our failure to guard our borders and enforce our immigration laws could not be clearer or more ominous,� says Dan Stein, president of FAIR. �What we have at our southern border is the potential for a catastrophe far greater than the one we experienced on 9/11. Our porous borders and the lack of enforcement of standing laws mean that the terrorists who perpetrate the next attack may be armed with WMDs instead of box cutters.
�The response to the warnings issued by Goss, Mueller and Loy must include immediate deployment of the military to the border and full funding for the additional 2,000 border agents approved by Congress,� continues Stein. �In light of this disturbing testimony, it is also imperative President Bush drop his schemes to legalize millions of illegal aliens and institute a massive guest worker program. The enormous amount of money, manpower and resources these schemes would require must be directed, instead, to the nation�s single overriding priority: protecting our homeland security.�

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The test is a simple 35 question, multiple answer test - and here's the best part - all the questions (and answers) are published! That's right - the entire 'pool' of questions is available! If you study -you will know the answer to every single question BEFORE you take the actual test.

While there are many ways to study for the test - here is a link to an inexpensive guide book that many hams have found useful. https://secure.qrz.com/store/w5yi/index.html

You want the first item - the "Technician class book" for $15.95 You might also want to check your local Radio Shack - they often have this book in stock.

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