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Why Did Obama Shut Down a Successful Aerial Surveillance Program along the U.S.-Mexican Border?
Frontpage ^ | November 25, 2016 | Ari Lieberman

Posted on 11/26/2016 5:15:19 AM PST by detective

President-elect Donald Trump has made the construction of physical barriers along the border with Mexico, immigration reform and the dissolution of sanctuary cities the cornerstone of his campaign but it appears that in its twilight weeks of office, the Obama administration is intent on making that lofty goal as difficult as possible. According to the government oversight group Watchdog.org, the Department of Homeland Security has recently and inexplicably shut down Operation Phalanx, an aerial surveillance program established in 2010 which aimed to interdict drug trafficking and illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexican border.   Phalanx authorized the allocation of 1,200 soldiers and airmen from the U.S. Army’s National Guard to assist U.S. customs and border patrol agents along the border. The program also employed advanced UH-72 helicopters to supplement other aerial surveillance platforms.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: border; dhs; obama
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"Operation Phalanx may have been too successful for the administration’s tastes. According to Watchdog.org, in the Laredo sector alone, “Operation Phalanx accounted for 10,559 apprehensions and 4,007 ‘turnbacks’ from March 2012 to December 2015. Phalanx was credited with seizing 12,851 pounds of narcotics during the period.”"

One of the few successful programs in the corrupt and dysfunctional Obama administration is shut down by Obama.

Obama wants no apprehension of illegals or seizure of drugs along the border.

Obama is trying to make Trump's job more difficult. 

1 posted on 11/26/2016 5:15:19 AM PST by detective
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To: detective

Because he’s either a traitor or and enemy agent, depending on his birth certificate.


2 posted on 11/26/2016 5:17:32 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs)
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To: detective

The question answers itself...


3 posted on 11/26/2016 5:19:14 AM PST by pfony1
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Because he’s either a traitor or and enemy agent, depending on his birth certificate.

Manchurian candidate. No doubt. Red diaper baby. The saving grace is that he is lazy and incompetent.

4 posted on 11/26/2016 5:19:19 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

The answer is prominently embedded within the question.


5 posted on 11/26/2016 5:21:49 AM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: detective

WPE


6 posted on 11/26/2016 5:22:59 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: detective

Stocking up ahead of time, before Mr Trump CLOSES the Border.

Report: Nearly all, 99.8%, of illegal drugs shipped to U.S. from Mexico
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3498524/posts

What will happen to the millions of Drug Warriors when we CLOSE down the Border???


7 posted on 11/26/2016 5:26:32 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Vacation fund was drying up.


8 posted on 11/26/2016 5:29:12 AM PST by pas
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To: Sirius Lee

What burns me up is that his worshippers know none of the type of many, many of his traitorous actions as we do. Furthermore they are such idiots they think if a man dresses well, smiles, laughs, and says he’s done nothing wrong they believe him never questioning anything not even realizing that many white collar criminals are very charming. And even if they suspected anything (which I doubt) they would just bury their hand in the sand and do nothing. What a waste of flesh....


9 posted on 11/26/2016 5:35:39 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: eyeamok

What will happen to the millions of Drug Warriors when we CLOSE down the Border???


They will go after the new drug manufacturers and dealers inside the U.S.

Or the new ones coming in to Florida, or along the East Coast, or in from Canada.

It is a stupid war.


10 posted on 11/26/2016 5:38:03 AM PST by marktwain
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To: detective

obama is like a renter who having been evicted trashes the place on his way out


11 posted on 11/26/2016 5:39:33 AM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen
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To: eyeamok

> What will happen to the millions of Drug Warriors when we CLOSE down the Border???

The Millenials and Gen Xs will go through withdrawal for awhile, get sober and straighten up, and stop rioting, maybe find jobs, and come to the stunning realization that those “energy drinks” that Soro’s organizations were handing out were laced with hypno psychotropic drugs?


12 posted on 11/26/2016 5:41:18 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: detective
When “the enemy is in the gate” that’s what he does: He makes sure the gate is open for the rest of the invaders.
13 posted on 11/26/2016 5:49:34 AM PST by drpix
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Because he’s either a traitor or and enemy agent, depending on his birth certificate.

Or, the cartels are contributing a percentage of each drug shipment that makes it across to his retirement fund!

14 posted on 11/26/2016 5:55:07 AM PST by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

He’s more like the renter who trashes the place from day one, ignores the garbage laying in his driveway, leaves the garage door open 24/7, lets his low-life brother use the place as a love hut, and refuses to pull the weeds.


15 posted on 11/26/2016 5:56:03 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (GO TRUMP! Drain the swamp!)
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To: fivecatsandadog

And because he pays his rent on time (imagine that) and he’s a minority, the rental agency won’t evict him.


16 posted on 11/26/2016 5:59:26 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (GO TRUMP! Drain the swamp!)
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To: detective
Got a quota to make before he leaves office.

99.8% of all the illegal drugs cross the Mexican/US border.

17 posted on 11/26/2016 6:01:24 AM PST by TYVets
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"What will happen to the millions of Drug Warriors when we CLOSE down the Border???"

Well, they "could" be shifted over to track down and deport the illegals already here.

18 posted on 11/26/2016 6:10:01 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: detective
Obama is trying to make Trump's job more difficult.

Yep - and ironically it boosts Trump's mandate to secure the border(s).

19 posted on 11/26/2016 6:11:29 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: jsanders2001

Bottom line is these people don’t believe anything unless it is on CNN, etc


20 posted on 11/26/2016 6:15:28 AM PST by varyouga
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