I live in Sierra Vista, 15 miles north of the border and 15 miles south of the checkpoint on AZ90.
I have neighbors who are BP officers.
They do have a presence along the border road that parallels the International Boundary. They don’t have enough officers to provide a blanket presence.
The Senator’s statement that they aren’t on the border just is not true. At least, not by my way of defining ‘on the border’. If you can see them crossing into the US, you’re on the border.
The Yuma sector is the poster child of the George Bush, dog, and pony show, he flew into Yuma to announce that he was putting the National Guard on the border, along with that was a massive increase in the number of BP agents stationed in the Yuma Sector, and about 50 miles of fence. While the other areas of the border received little if anything.
Eleven months after that dog and pony show came another, where he beat his chest announcing that he had done his part to secure the border, in return he wanted amnesty, better known as "Comprehensive Immigration Reform."
The upside to that is we no longer have to spend our evenings out on the border.