Border Patrol reports more apprehensions, but is that the whole story?
Sun, 01/15/2012 - 12:01am
Border Patrol seized marijuana from this abandoned vehicle in November in the Tucson sector.
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BISBEE — The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended almost 125,000 illegal immigrants and seized more than 1 million pounds of marijuana in the Tucson Sector during the last fiscal year, but the key question is how many people and drugs entered the United States and didn’t get caught.
Last month, the Border Patrol released its accomplishments for Fiscal 2011, which ran from Oct. 1, 2010, to Sept. 30, 2011. The Tucson Sector, the agency’s busiest sector, covers 262 linear miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is unfunded mandates forced on taxpayers by the courts, to subsidize illegal aliens with 113 billions of dollars annually and rising—even though they violated US Sovereignty. The Illegal invaders have voted and will again to undermine our elections. Read more at NumbersUSA and Judicial Watch
Some people are noticing the numbers don’t add up. You can’t catch what you are not after. It would be like deer hunting on Fry Blvd. Even in SV I see activity going on, have reported it and no agents show up. Not only that, just because illegals get caught, doesn’t mean they give up and go home. They continue to cross until they get in. Wake up America—our government does not want to control this problem for political reasons. It is a problem that sits on both sides of the political spectrum so it will never be solved.