Border Patrol Agents Told to Run and Hide From Armed Illegal Aliens -- "Are the lunatics running the asylum?"

In what they termed "another nauseating series of Virtual
Learning Center brainwashing courses that Border Patrol agents are
forced to sit behind a computer for hours and endure," officials at the Border Patrol Union reported

their members are taught in an "Active Shooter" course that if agents
encounter a shooter in a public place they are to "run away" and "hide."
But on Saturday, while visiting Texas, Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano had a different message, according to a government
report.

"If we are cornered by such a shooter we are to (only as a last
resort) become 'aggressive' and 'throw things' at him or her. We are
then advised to 'call [local] law enforcement' and wait for their
arrival ,presumably, while more innocent victims are slaughtered,"
states the Arizona (Local 2544) Border Patrol web site.

"These types of mandatory brainwashing courses and the idiocy that
accompanies them are simply stunning when they are force-fed to law
enforcement officers," state NBPC Local 2544 officials.

"On the one hand, the Obama administration opposes local law
enforcement officers being involved in immigration enforcement, and on
the other hand the Border Patrol Agents are
taught to call the local cops when faced with violence being
perpetrated by illegal aliens at U.S. borders," said former NYPD police
sergeant James McMahon, now a security consultant and private
investigator.

"Are the lunatics now running the asylum? It's the most asinine
instruction I've heard since [President Bill] Clinton issued an
executive order to CIA agents prohibiting them from using 'unsavory
characters' as informants back in the 1990's," McMahon told the Law Enforcement Examiner.

“It is always comforting to know that for those of us who carry a
weapon when we are off-duty, if we should encounter such a situation,
stop a shooter and save countless lives, we can look forward to being
disciplined or fired by the Border Patrol because we should have run
away to hide and then maybe thrown objects at the deranged killer
instead of taking action and stopping him with a firearm,” the Local
2544 web site states.

Meanwhile, on the heels of giving over 800,000 illegal aliens non-deportation privileges, the three top Obama immigration enforcement
officials visited one of the nation's Southwest border states on
Saturday in what was described as a 'dog and pony show' by several law
enforcement officers.

Secretary Janet Napolitano, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (U.S.
Border Patrol) Acting Commissioner David V. Aguilar arrived in Dallas,
TX, on Saturday to participate in the Annual National Latino Peace Officers Association's (NLPOA) Training Conference, according to a press statement.

Secretary Napolitano told conference participants that DHS is committed to
working with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial law
enforcement to combat evolving threats and protect our nation’s
communities.

However, Napolitano made no mention of her nor President Barack Obama's punitive actions against the law enforcement community in Texas' neighbor, Arizona, according to law enforcement officials.

Without hesitation, she stripped Arizona law enforcement officials of
their authority to participate in combating illegal immigration through
ICE's 287g program,
which enables local police officers and sheriff's deputies to enforce
immigration law in cooperation with federal law enforcement," said
former NYPD police detective Iris Aquino, a former member of NLPOA.

In fact, there's talk within the nation's capital of ending 287g altogether, according to members of the news media.

"This administration is not serious about illegal immigration, drug
enforcement or homeland security. It's just one 'dog and pony show'
after another. Napolitano's visit to Texas was just more pandering and
empty promises to the Latino voters," said Aquino, herself a Latino law
enforcement veteran.

What surprised many observers was when during the
conference
Secretary Napolitano and ICE Director Morton presented the NLPOA Officer
of the Year Award posthumously to the family of ICE Special Agent Jaime
Zapata. The ICE agent was assassinated in Mexico by members of Los
Zetas drug
cartel with at least one of the weapons allegedly linked to the
Operation Fast and Furious debacle, although Napolitano and Morton made no mention of the gun-walking scandal.

"I noticed that Napolitano and Aguilar never mentioned Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry,
who was murdered by a Mexican illegal alien using a Fast and Furious
gun," said police lieutenant Stephen Ritter of the New York State
Division of Housing Public Safety Department.

"These political people have no shame... no shame whatsoever," Ritter added.

Comment: Let's see if we have this straight: Incompetano has canceled ICE's 287g agreement with the State of Arizona and ICE will no longer respond to calls from state law enforcement officers regarding the apprehension of illegal aliens, but Border Patrol agents (usually armed with hand guns even when off-duty) are told not to confront armed illegals but to hide and call local law enforcement, the very people to whom they won't respond?