[TexasCowboy]

"Cochise County was the site for nearly one fifth of all illegal immigration apprehensions in the nation."

HJ, I'm not sure that's a relevant statistic.
I'll admit y'all have a severe problem in Arizona, but the rest of the border has problems equally severe.
I just don't think that much effort is expended in apprehension of illegals along the Texas border.

One thing is for sure, we're all hurting, and it ain't over by a long shot!

[HiJinx]

I'll be the first to admit that the number of apprehensions is irrelevant due to several factors, not the least of which is that it doesn't have any relation to the number of intrusions.

But it is the one statistic that the BICE and news outlets have that is concrete. So they use it.

Yeah, I know, we're all hurting. And the hurt is economic, political, environmental, physical, and cultural. It spans the spectrum of all we hold dear, TC. Short of mining the border - a solution that cannot happen, IMHO, nor should it - we don't have a prayer of stemming the tide the way things are going now.