News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Smugglers innovate as border tightens

Nick Martin

USA Today
Aug. 3, 2006 09:10 AM

An increase of federal agents and National Guardsmen patrolling the nation's borders is forcing smugglers to resort to new tactics to sneak drugs into the country, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

Some are assaulting border agents or hiding drugs in baseball bats and live animals. Others are partnering with immigrant traffickers. And more drug criminals are sneaking into the country by digging underground tunnels, drug and border agents say.

"You're seeing drug traffickers doing absolutely anything," says Rusty Payne, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman.

Nationwide, drug seizures by Border Patrol agents are up almost 20 percent over this time last year, the Border Patrol reported. In parts of the Southwest, marijuana seizures alone are up as much as 212 percent, according to the Border Patrol.

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