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.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

S. Ariz. busts at record pace after Mexican bumper crop

By Brady McCombs
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Photo by Arizona Daily Star

Marijuana seizures by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector appear headed to new highs for a second consecutive year.

A year after hauling in 616,534 pounds of pot to shatter the previous record set in 2005, seizures are 26 percent ahead of that pace two months into fiscal year 2007, said Tucson Sector Chief Michael Nicley.

Marijuana seizures have been increasing in the Tucson Sector since 2002. In 2003, the sector overtook the Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas for the most seizures along the southern border and has held the top spot since then. The 616,534 pounds seized in 2006 was more than double that of any other sector. The 131,100 pounds seized since Oct. 1 is more than the total seized in the Yuma Sector from 2003 through 2006, according to Border Patrol figures.

"The sheer amount of drugs coming in — that poison going to our streets — is a big concern of mine," Nicley said. "We need to do anything we can to shut that flow off from Mexico."

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