Not only that, from a couple friends I know living in AZ and TX very close to the border, most of the news is being heavily filtered onto the national scene with regards to the violence and drugs associated with ‘the unrest’ in Mexico. Cross border hits (murder on US soil, kidnappings, beatings, cuttings) are common place now not to mention local LEO’s are doing very little to stop incoming product. We here do not even get 1/100th of the news of what’s happening now.
“Not only that, from a couple friends I know living in AZ and TX very close to the border, most of the news is being heavily filtered onto the national scene with regards to the violence and drugs associated with ‘the unrest’ in Mexico. Cross border hits (murder on US soil, kidnappings, beatings, cuttings) are common place now not to mention local LEO’s are doing very little to stop incoming product. We here do not even get 1/100th of the news of what’s happening now.”
You’re right about that. If not for our retired border agents and their great reports, we wouldn’t see much.
Death and destruction continue to intensify
m3reportNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS ^ | Jan. 26, 2009 | NAFBPO
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I live a few blocks from the border. If I get on my roof, I can see the fence. We could get a potato over the border with a decent potato gun. That being said, They are doing a lot of law enforcement in our sector. On one highway, the border patrol outnumber the regular travelers. That is no exaggeration.
I think what most people don’t realize about sealing off the border is that there is a great deal of desert, mountain land to secure. Even in the places that have fences (our city), the mexicans go under it, over it or through it. We caught a couple of them coming through a double-fenced concrete-reinforced section within a couple of miles of the house.
It is my honest opinion that we need to militarize the border. National Guard should be sitting on the border fence. THAT being said, most of the border here in Arizona is just desert scrub brush. You would literally have to post a soldier every 50 feet, and still some might get through.
This was just to let you know that border patrol is doing something.