Two residents of Southern Arizona appeared before a Congressional committee in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and testified that their communities have become more dangerous because of a Border Patrol strategy known as “Defense in Depth.”
Under the program, the U.S. Border Patrol sets up checkpoints up to 100 miles from the border with Mexico. But residents Peggy Davis and Gary Brasher said at a House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security hearing that this has created a stretch of U.S. territory where people crossing into the country illegally have “free run,” according to the Arizona Capitol Times.
“The unfortunate thing for those of us [who] live there is that that’s where we live,” Brasher told the subcommittee. “That’s where we work, that’s where our children go to school.”
Brasher is a resident of Tubac, about 20 miles north of the border, while Davis lives in Tombstone, some 30 miles into the U.S.
Davis testified that people entering the country illegally have vandalized her ranch and robbed her son; she also believes they were responsible for the 2010 death of her friend, Robert Krentz.
The U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan testified in support of the Defense in Depth, stating that it allows the agency to maximize its limited resources “to increase our ability to rapidly respond to threats and to strengthen enforcement.”
He added, “I need to make sure that we have the resources to drive intelligence, gather intelligence, disseminate intelligence. To continue to drive those operations to, hopefully as a counter-network approach, take the fight before they get to the border.”
Brasher and Davis also argued that Border Patrol needs more funding and resources, the Capitol Times reported, suggesting that more agents and better data collection would help.
The subcommittee’s chairperson, Rep. Martha McSally (R-Arizona), would like the agency to reconsider Defense in Depth.
“Our enforcement posture should be arranged with the intent of anticipating, deterring and stopping most illicit activity before it enters our communities,” she said at the hearing, “using the overwhelming majority of agents and technology as close to the line as terrain, access and agent safety will allow.”
Yep I’m in AZ and the Border Patrol rolls around Casa Grande mean mugging and drinking Starbucks. Its rather pathetic considering there is almost always unlimited visibility here therefore if the Border Patrol actually patrolled the border there would be no way anyone could get over in mass.
They have to exert dominance over someone. They are not allowed to truly patrol the boarder so they move inland where there are people to to…
The reason they are this far in off the real border is because we are all basically living in a supermax prison to some degree
Look , let’s not candy coat this crap
We are living in a police state that is fighting an undeclared war with anyone they choose even themselves at times
This is what we’ve all been warning the window lickers in this country about , this IS what they are blind to as its right up in their knickers
DHS, BP, BLM CIA FBI adnauseum are in a race to subvert your very existence at every possible avenue
There is no more Mfg in this country anymore, and everyday more is leaving
What’s going to support this top heavy government when we’re all unemployed?
Or is that going to be the final trigger to act on decades of subjugation?
Tic tic toc
“Look , let’s not candy coat this crap”
candy coat…at FTT, surely you jest
Oh not to imply that anything is candy coated here at FTTWR
We know better than that
Stories that get posted here for our reading from sources outside of FTTWR
Can have it as for informational purposes or to see if anyone is catching on the the establishments candy coated crap
Hope that clears up any misunderstanding
These internal “Check Points” are really to harass Americans and train us to be good little SOVIET slaves. It amounts to a Fixed fortification, and the illegals EASILY circumvent them and just walk around them. They do NOTHING to secure the border. In fact they sap resources away from interdicting invading Mexicans and OTMs. This is Treason and it is FAILURE!!!!
“Two residents of Southern Arizona appeared before a Congressional committee in Washington, D.C.”
Why didn’t they stay home and be ignored by congress there? What the hell do these fools think anyone in congress is going to do?
“Love to help you with that undocumented wetback thing, but my pageboy is sexting me right now”.
Shoot the wetbacks, you idiot. And if anyone complains about it, shoot them, too.
CON GRESS MY ASS