Arizona Sheriff: Border Patrol Has Retreated from Parts of Border Because It’s ‘Too Dangerous’

CNSNews ^ | August 13, 2010 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[jazusamo]

 

Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz. (Cochise County Sheriff's office photo)

(CNSNews.com) - Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz., one of four Arizona counties contiguous with the U.S-Mexico border, said Friday that the U.S. Border Patrol has pulled back from parts of the border in his and neighboring counties because manning those areas has become too dangerous.
 
“And you frankly have Border Patrolmen--and I know this from talking to Border Patrol agents—who will not allow their agents to work on the border because it is too dangerous,” Dever told CNSNews.com in a videotaped interview. “Now what kind of message is that for crying out loud?”

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Dever, a native of Cochise County, has been in local law enforcement in the county for three decades. He was elected the county sheriff in 1996.

Dever stressed that the Border Patrolmen are ready and willing to perform their mission of securing the border, but that Border Patrol managers had determined that in “some places” the danger was too great and they wanted to avoid the risk of an international incident such as a cross-border firefight.
 
“Now, I am telling you, the agents, you give them a mission, you tell them what you want them to do, they will go do it,” said Dever. “I mean, these guys for the most part are warriors, they are soldiers.
 
“Then you have middle management and upper management that says: No, it’s too dangerous right there and we’re going to cause an international incident if there’s shooting across the line, back and forth,” said Dever.
 
“Well, I say: Come, bring it on. Let’s cause the international incident,” he said.
 
Dever said there were places where the Border Patrol had pulled back from the border in his county and in neighboring areas both in Arizona and New Mexico.
 
He pointed out that in Pinal County, 70 miles north of the border, the Bureau of Land Management has put up a sign along a drug smuggling corridor to warn American citizens away from the region because it is too dangerous.
 
CNSNews.com provided Customs and Border Protection with a transcript of Sheriff Dever's statement about the Border Patrol pulling back from parts of the border in his area because it is too dangerous.

"There are areas down there in the Tucson Sector where for officer safety reasons, officers aren’t up on the line. For whatever reason--it may be a remote area," said a CBP spokesperson. "We still have the means to detect entry, whether it is a sensor or a scoped vehicle. So the entry is detected, but the apprehension of the undocumented migrant isn’t affected until they reach a safe area.”

[CedarDave]

NM list PING!

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[Tammy8]

I spent the 4th of July 5 miles from where Rob Krentz was murdered in cold blood. I did not see one Border Patrol or law enforcement of any kind in that area all day long. There were tons of both on the highways and in the small communities we passed through near there, but NONE at all in the very area where the smuggling activity is the heaviest and where Rob Krentz was murdered.

As far as authorities acting like sensors tell them when someone has crossed the border- the sensors are spaced fairly far apart and people have to walk right near one to trigger it. The truth is many people cross every day without triggering any sensors.

[unkus]

A DMZ about 10 miles wide.

[LegendHasIt]

I fear their bosses in Washington would just as soon have it that way anyway.

God bless the ‘rank and file’ agents and officers that operate under this intolerable situation.

[archy]

A ditch

Barbed wire

Land mines

Machine gun towers

Search lights

Groin-biting dogs

Severed heads on pikes to warn the others

There isn’t another country in the world that wouldn’t do this.

We can have a secure border.

You left something out.

[archy]

A DMZ about 10 miles wide.

During the 1960s, our side of the border between West Germany and that of East Germany [DDR] and then-Soviet Czechoslovokia was a military zone 5 kilometers in depth, AKA *the 5-K Zone*.

That is all it takes- IF troops with the right equipment are there backing it up.

[ought-six]

Ah, I see you are an apologist for illegals. You speak of the SHTF. I suggest you get the hell out of the way when that day comes.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Did I wake up in France this morning?

¡Beinvenidos a los reconquistadores y los carteles! /MUCHO SARCASMO

If we're retreating from our own borders, we might as well bid farewell to the Republic.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Did you see how overweight some of those people are? Even America's angry, racist Mexican Reconquistadoras are fat (if ya want to appreciate how good this country has been to them). They wouldn't last 1 second at Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers.

(And yes, I know that, technically, they're Caucasians, too, but that's not how they think.)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The good Mexicans who are worth something are NOT the ones trying to steal part of our country back.