Posted on 03/22/2008 8:03:27 AM PDT by SandRat
The U.S. Border Patrol has brought in 200 additional agents and is offering flights home to Mexico City for illegal entrants selected for prosecution as part of a new effort.
The multifaceted strategy called "Operation Arizona Denial" has the mantra of "breaking the smuggling cycle." The idea is to concentrate resources in targeted areas to reduce illegal-entrant smuggling and violence in the Tucson Sector, the busiest along the Southwest border for illegal entries and marijuana smuggling.
The additional agents have come from other Border Patrol sectors and will be here temporarily, said Mike Scioli, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. Their primary duty will be to help out in the Nogales processing center, which will free up agents trained in the Tucson Sector to work in the field, he said.
The sector has slightly more than 3,000 full-time agents, nearly double the 1,600 it had in 2002.
The flights to Mexico City will be offered to illegal entrants from Mexico who are among the 50 tabbed daily from high-traffic areas for prosecution under the petty offense of illegal entry.
"It gives that smuggler less of a chance to recruit them now because of the distance between them," Scioli said. The other facets of the operation include enhancing working relationships between Border Patrol agents and other federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies, and focusing on Web-based information sharing through an intelligence and operations coordination center.
The agency is not revealing the targeted areas for the operation citing security reasons, Scioli said. The sector covers 262 miles from the New Mexico line to the eastern edge of Yuma County.
Border Ping!
Invaders.
I’ll take a free flight to Mexico City. Knowing our government, they will fly them first class. They’ll probably also pay $1,400 one way.
Next, the political correctnessists will change "entrant" to "border challenged" or "differently homesteaded citizens."
The U.S. Border Patrol has brought in 200 additional agents and is offering flights home to Mexico City for illegal entrants selected for prosecution as part of a new effort.
"Illegal Entrants"
” Their primary duty will be to help out in the Nogales processing center, which will free up agents trained in the Tucson Sector to work in the field, he said.
The sector has slightly more than 3,000 full-time agents, nearly double the 1,600 it had in 2002. “
In 2002, while daily driving a 10 mile stretch of sr86, I would pass @50 BP vehicles returning with their catch. The last couple of years, driving the same route, same time, its rare to see more than 2.
I’ve noticed that for some reason, newspapers with the word “Star” in their title, could usually have the words “Red Star” substituted with little change in their editorial opinions.
GEE.... you noticed that too.
Patrol steps up action on entrants (Not entrants! Illegals -— sheesh!!!)...
didn’t the lib/dems & msm call them undocumented immigrants...now they are entrants....
how long before the sign reads..Bienvendidos Citzens!!!!!
These folks are properly termed illegal f’n aliens !
Ping!
Bttt!
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