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This is less than whitewash – it’s just eye-candy, like a Potemkin village. “See, we are trying to solve the problem.”

Here are the problems that I perceive.

To begin with, this attorney (or whatever “top management type”) came up with this idea apparently has no clue about the logistics involved. We’re talking about an area of well over 11,000 square miles. We have about 500 Border Patrol agents in Cochise County (southeast Arizona) and only one-third as much border as the area in question. Probably 80% of the illegals and drug smugglers making the attempt here still get away. That southwest part of Arizona is largely unpopulated, so they’ll be importing the manpower from somewhere else.

Worse, this guy is talking about the absolute meanest part of the Arizona-Sonora Desert. Satan uses that place as special punishment for doomed souls who break his rules. Yes, increased patrols may save some naïve people who really think Phoenix is only a few hours walk ahead, but advertising like this can also be turned to the coyotes’ advantage. “Hey, don’t sweat it. If we get into trouble, the gringo patrols will just drive us back to the border and we try again the next day.”

Next question – how do they intend to pick the coyote out of the crowd? All he has to do is tell the customers up front, “If we get stopped, you keep your mouth shut and do not narc me out. You’ll still be shipped back south, somebody else will talk, and you’ll never get another guide. And you’ll be lucky if my amigos don’t cut your throat.”

That’s just the problems I see off the top of my head without going into “serious thought and analysis” mode.

Probably 80% of the illegals and drug smugglers making the attempt here still get away.

It seems it would be mostly drug smugglers and other criminals coming through that way in the first place because it's easy enough for others to get a shopping pass or temporary visa, or fake papers, come across the official ports of entry and then just stay.