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.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Illegal entry down 45% in N.M.

The Associated Press
Published: 09.16.2006

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A commander of the National Guard's effort to bolster the U.S. Border Patrol along New Mexico's southern border says illegal crossings from Mexico have fallen 45 percent since troops were dispatched in June.

Col. Jim Morgan, commander of Task Force Zia, discussed border security with the Legislature's Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee on Thursday.

Guard troops from New Mexico, Arkansas, Georgia and West Virginia have been building vehicle barriers and providing surveillance and other assistance for the Border Patrol from U.S. 54 south of Alamogordo to the Arizona border, Morgan said.

Currently, 770 National Guard troops are working in southern New Mexico, he said.

"We are at locations determined by the flow of people," he said.

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