During these operations, BLM brings additional law enforcement rangers to state-owned land to clean-up the area, confiscate any drugs left behind and possibly arrest any suspicious persons found in the area.
The most recent operation was called Operation ROAM (Reclaim Our Arizona Monuments) and focused on the Ironwood Forest and Sonoran Desert National Monuments.
The operation pulled out 7.5 tons of trash from both monuments and saw 228 law enforcement events, including the seizure of nearly 4,000 pounds of marijuana and the arrests of 223 suspected illegal immigrants.
Crew members reported finding just about everything, but said cell phones were very popular. One found an automatic rifle, complete with loaded clips.
Most of the trash was found near Interstate 8, but Melinda Mahoney, a BLM park ranger, said it looks like things are getting better.
"I think we're making a difference," she said in a press release. "We're hearing from the rangers, especially those that are returning from last year, that it looks a lot cleaner." http://ktar.com/6/1508292/BLM-operation-nets-75-tons-of-garbage-near-border
( well for the time being ) more illegals shall come and m0re trash will stack up in areas from where illegals will be crossing & dumping their trash. I think AZ park still has warning signs to beware of drug cartels, drug mules, human smugglers,illegal aliens.. Nice to see that state, local and federal authorities are cracking down on cesspools of crime that are leveraged by terrorists. I feel safer, don’t you?
The words “Border and Safe” do not belong in the same sentence. Our government could close the border if they wanted to. Evidently, they don’t want the border closed.
Raj Bhakta crosses the border on an elephant with a mariachi band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAcIGx-nxdI&feature=related
Related,,,I encourage Freepers to see “Act of Valor”.
Shows how easy it is for a major attack to happen due to our open borders. Our next president must seal the borders tight. Bush wouldn’t. Hussein? Didn’t expect him to. But the next president...he can prove he’s worthy of the office by slamming that damn border shut.
The border is porous AlQaida and the Iranians are chummy with the drug cartels, weapons of mass destruction including nukes could easily come into the hands of terrorists. It is surprising that they have not at least set up mortars, artillery and missiles just within the Mexican border to attack American positions. Border cities and bases like Fort Huachuca could be ground zero. The Apaches made use of the Mexican border much like the Taliban currently does the Pakistani border. It is a game the terrorists know how to play.
One could march a army across the border with out having to slow down.
There are still wide gaps along the border.
I live in Washington state and the last three BOLOs law enforcement put out on hispanics up here were multi-time deportees with brand new WA drivers licenses that they obtained upon re-entering America. We are seeing repeat offenders back in the area within 6 weeks of being deported, and that is when law enforcement detects them again. I bet they are coming back in less than a week.
The answer is that the border isn't secure at all.
How secure is the border?
You are forced to have a colonoscopy in order to fly to Tampa.
The border is not monitored and criminals run free.
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This is about control and security, not safety.
Security means you are tracked.
Safety means you are protected.
The Texas/Mexico border is a river. Easy to cross, that is the reason we have always called illegal aliens “wetbacks” I saw the the New Mexico and Arizona border a few years ago and it was a few strands of rusty barbed wire. I doubt if it has changed very much. I haven’t seen the California/Mexico border so I can’t comment.
Got this in an email this evening from the New Mexico Cattlegrowers Association:
The U.S. State Department has prohibited travel for employees without armored vehicle and armed escort. As a result the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is suspending cattle inspections at the border crossings in Palomas, Ojinga and Cd Acuna, Mexico, which border New Mexico and Texas. Last year USDA suspended inspections in Reynosa, N Laredo, and Pierdas Negras. Its slow season, it expected that the USDA will re-assess the situation in 30 days. Solutions require input from U.S. Customs & Border Protection and cooperation from SAGARPA and Union Ganadera de Chihuahua. At this time, crossings will continue at Santa Theresa.
Tough questions?
Nothing tough about it.
Nothing.
I was Operations Director for the Texas Minutemen for two years. I spent about six months on the border. A O’s were the east end of El Paso / Juarez to Ft. Hancock and northwest of Laredo to Eagle Pass.
I also worked with two others and Jim Gilchrist designing, building and operating the C&C portion of the original Minuteman Project out of the Miracle Valley Bible College south of Sierra Vista in the spring of 2005.
In those two years with TM I spent six months on-the-border. Not near it but on it as in I could toss a rock in the Rio Grande.
Is it secure?
Picture a nice, new, fully finished gate with nothing but fence posts in the ground extending from either side.
No fence, just posts.
And the posts only run for a few miles.
OK, you have got the picture.
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Our borders secure?
If a 12 year old mexican kid with a couple of bottles
of water can make it across, what is to stop a 20 year
old terrorist who has been trained to kill and taught
escape and evasion?
Nothing.
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