The point being made, poobah is not that the Coasties are intecepting all the illegals arriving by sea, but that I have a pretty good "ear to the ground" on the topic of beach entry. I suspect that you don't. Further, if we didn't have people chaing foot traffic all over 150,000 sq. miles of desert we could utilize those BP people elsewhere.
That is a crucial question. Over-the-beach entries are very few--but the Coast Guard cannot handle that relatively small trickle right now.
If they can't handle the very small amount of over-the-beach illegal immigration today, what makes you think they'd be able to handle a vastly greater number tomorrow?
but that I have a pretty good "ear to the ground" on the topic of beach entry. I suspect that you don't.
You don't have a good ear to the ground on this issue. I do.
Further, if we didn't have people chaing foot traffic all over 150,000 sq. miles of desert we could utilize those BP people elsewhere.
Like trying to chase illegals across ten times as much land.
This isn't a problem that is amenable to a force-only solution.
You lost the argument back in 1965.