Federal Auditor: Border Patrol Can Stop Illegal Entries Along Only 129 Miles of .. Mexican Border

CNSNews.com ^ | 3/31/11 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[NormsRevenge]

(CNSNews.com) - Richard M. Stana, director of homeland security and justice issues at the Government Accountability Office (which is responsible for “auditing agency operations to determine whether federal funds are being spent efficiently and effectively”), told the Senate Homeland Security Committee yesterday that the federal government can actually prevent or stop illegal entries into the United States along only 129 miles of the 1,954-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.

That leaves 1,825 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border where the Border Patrol cannot prevent or stop an illegal entry.

Nonetheless, Stana told the committee, the Border Patrol itself says it has established “an acceptable level of control” along 873 miles of the 1,954-mile-long southwest border. ..

“According to Border Patrol,” Stana told the committee, “an acceptable level of border control is established when it has the capability (i.e., resources) to deter or detect and apprehend incursions at the immediate border or after entry.” [Emphasis added.]

In addition to the 129 miles where the Border Patrol says it can actually “deter or detect and apprehend illegal entries” at the border itself, Stana told the committee, there are another 744 miles where the Border Patrol says it has the capability to deter or detect and apprehend illegal entrants after they have entered the county and penetrated U.S. territory to “distances of up to 100 miles or more away from the immediate border.”

The 3,918-mile-long northern border of the United States is virtually wide open, according to Stana’s testimony. The Border Patrol, Stana said, reports that it has established “an acceptable level of control” along only 69 miles of this border and that of those 69 miles there are only 2 miles where the Border Patrol can actually prevent or stop an illegal entry.

[NormsRevenge]

and not even that.. had to excerpt it a bit..

also

The 3,918-mile-long northern border of the United States is virtually wide open, according to Stana’s testimony.

hmmmm..

[Davidlion]

This is criminal negligence . We are going to get hit by al queada and these people are going to see serious back lash from the populace.

[econjack]

I still like the idea of towers every 2 miles along any border with a Marine sniper in it with orders to “shoot to wound”. Those who are wounded are tattooed with a big “I” on the forehead, big enough to be seen through a sniper scope, and then kicked back across the border. Someone with an “I” on his forehead and tries a second time to come into the country illegally is subject to rules of engagement orders that are different.

[pnh102]

Landmines would solve this problem.

[imfrmdixie]

........agree!

[Olog-hai]

Meanwhile, Calderon's criticism is for the AZ law, which is less draconian than federal laws (if they were enforced). And the Mexican government has been building a wall on its border with Guatemala.

How come we didn't build a canal from CA to TX, too? never mind us giving up the Panama Canal to China, which was utterly foolish and will hurt us even more, especially with the South African states forming their copy of the totalitarian European Union.

[Hardastarboard]

Yes to everything in your post. The only point I would make is that you are right, there will be a backlash, but the slime that make up our current ruling class won’t suffer from it. They’re like cockroaches. You may pick off a few of them, but the majority will survive no matter what.

[Olog-hai]

Bah; for "South African" read South American. UNASUR just gave itself a socialist leadership cabal.

[SandRat]

Border Ping

[fantom]

Calderone is a feckless powerless puppet for the drug empire . When he said that crap about Arizona , McCain or one of those other old fart Senators should havr knocked him on his ass.

[Pelham]

You mean the Virtual Fence that Dubya insisted we should have, instead of the real fence that we wanted, doesn't work?

Golly, who could have predicted that.

Jobs Americans Won't Do. Family Values Don't Stop At the Rio Grande. Islam is a Religion of Peace

[mo]

Hmm...South Koreans sleep tight in their beds at night along their border with North Korea....thanks to america military presence and technology.

Why can’t taxpaying Americans?

[mo]

Hmm...South Koreans sleep tight in their beds at night along their border with North Korea....thanks to American military presence and technology.

Why can't taxpaying Americans?

[Gilbo_3]

ya know, in 200 plus yrs, youd think we couldve built a damn fence, wall, moat, minefield and placed some pre-sited mortars...a few flamethrowers and we’d be good to go...

[dalereed]

“I still like the idea of towers every 2 miles along any border with a Marine sniper in it with orders to “shoot to wound”.”

All military coming out of boot camp spend 6 months on the border to earn their marksmanship medal and only if they make a clean kill!!

[Karliner]

wow totus added an 1/8 mile. Must have cost a trillion shovels and Feds...:p

[antceecee]

Wasn’t that the message Karl Rove helped to develop? Now this guy wants to pick the next conservative candidate for President

[Pelham]

“Wasn’t that the message Karl Rove helped to develop?”

I think you’re right.

[alexandria]

I wouldn’t waste the tattoo ink. Better idea would be paint balls injected with a liquid that stains skin. Shoot the stained ones on re-entry attempt.

[econjack]

Good idea, as long as the stain is visible and clothing doesn’t keep it from staining.