The last time I was driving along the border, the BP were out and monitoring the countryside. This was along the narrow strip of U.S. land between the Huachuca Mts. and the border.
We also have checkpoints on all of the paved roads that lead from the border to I-10. It's very hard to drive out with a vehicle full of illegals.
And finally, we have UAVs monitoring the unpaved roads that lead to I-10.
All of this to say that it's a bit disingenous to say that the deployment strategy is aimed at Tucson.
You are NOT talking about the area where Dr. Carson was and if you are as familiar with that area as you act like you would know that. Freepers who read this post must discount this post.
It is true what Dr. Carson and his sources say about that area and about Tucson.
The road that Dr. Carson was on is very close o the border fence at times. A Mexican railroad parallels the Arizona, road curving north at one point to almost touch the border fence. The train slows way down on the curve and people jump out and hide low until the BP trucks move out of sight and then the people run across the border and meet up with vans which take them up and out across the country.
That scenario is played out all across the Arizona border along with the walkers. I know people down there who see the rape trees and find Korans and Arabic papers.
America is being invaded.!!!!!!
The rural areas of Cochise County East and Northeast of Douglas are not well patrolled by Border Patrol. Rob Krentz was murdered in the area between the Chiricahua Mountains and the New Mexico line and that is the area they were referring to. I doubt they know that the areas around Sierra Vista are patrolled as well as you saw.
I was within 5 miles of where Rob Krentz was murdered about 2 weeks before it happened, did not see a Border Patrol at all in the nearly 30 miles I traveled after crossing into Arizona from New Mexico. I was back to the same location about 2 weeks after Rob Krentz was murdered and Border Patrol were all over the state highway but as soon as we left the highway there were no more Border Patrol. None were within 10 miles of where he was actually murdered. That is the frustration of the ranchers in that area. Border Patrol has a horse patrol camp in that area, but is not permanent. When they did build a permanent Border Patrol operation facility “in that area” it was built 15-20 miles from where Rob Krentz was murdered.
There is an immense amount of frustration when the government chooses not to deal with the real hot spots, which is what happens all along the border. Where I live in NM is not considered a major hot spot normally and we have quite a lot of Border Patrol activity in this area. The puzzling thing is it seems the more presence an area needs, the less it has.