Border Patrol Discreditting Minutemen by Any Means Necesary?

The Washington Times is reporting that high-ups in the Border Patrol have given order to slow or stop arrests along the section of the border which the volunteer movement known as the Minutemen were guarding so as to make sure the statistics do not show an increase due to their activities. For those who may not recall, the Minutemen Project volunteers set up lawn chairs at about 1/4 mile intervals along the most porous sections of the Arizona/Mexico border to watch for illegal aliens attempting to cross.

More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration...Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, yesterday said "credible sources" within the Border Patrol also had told him of the decision by Naco supervisors to keep new arrests to a minimum, saying he was angry but not surprised.
"It's like telling a cop to stand by and watch burglars loot a store but don't arrest any of them," he said. "This is another example of decisions being made at the highest levels of the Border Patrol that are hurting morale and helping to rot the agency from within.
"I worry about our efforts in Congress to increase the number of agents," he said. "Based on these kinds of orders, we could spend the equivalent of the national debt and never have secure borders."

If this is true, it is proof that the Border Patrol needs new management and soon. Cooking the books to prove your point never works in a free society like ours, because there are too many people checking and rechecking the same thing. Maybe it is time for the president to directly order his Homeland Security Chief to replace the head of the BP, and start their mission anew.