[cripplecreek]

I suggest searching freerepublic for the stories of their success but I wouldn't count on anything from the border patrol since they're officially opposed.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thanks.

I have been reading the links posted by backhoe here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380062/posts

and so far there aren't any real "successes" that I see. There are instances where the border patrol now has to not only look for illegals crossing over but monitor the "volunteers" as well.

Seems to be like adding to the burden of the Patrol agents, IMO. One step forwards, two steps back, for whose sake and name? Simcox? Savage? The fact Savage pushes it is enough to cause me to question it! The more things change, the more they stay the same. When this dies out, I doubt anyone will look back and say what a great plan it was, but I guarantee they will blame its failure on George Bush. It's chic' to do that nowadays, you know.

[HiJinx]

Actually, the Border Patrol has given those figures to Bill Hess, Senior Report at the Sierra Vista Herald.

Spiff and I have been posting them all week.

Only 400 had been apprehended in sector by the end of the third day of April, a rate of about 133 per day.

For the previous month (March), the BP apprehended 24,232, which is 781 per day.

Which makes the claim of this editorial that the MMP is a failure a hugh bucket of whitewash.