National Guard troops are having a deterrent effect, dropping the attempt rate 62 percent in one busy sector.
By
Faye Bowers | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
YUMA, ARIZ. One phrase sums up both the chief achievement and complaint of National Guard soldiers and airmen posted along this dusty strip of border with Mexico: "Nothing happening."
That's good news for Operation Jumpstart, President Bush's eight-month-old initiative to reinforce America's southern border with National Guard troops until enough border patrol agents are trained. The extra troops appear to be discouraging people from trying to cross illegally.
Apprehensions of illegal immigrants in the Yuma sector – one of the busiest for the past two years and a top target for the operation – have dropped 62 percent in the last four months compared with the same period a year ago. That's the biggest drop of all nine border patrol sectors on the frontier with Mexico and double the average decline. The amount of marijuana seized in the Yuma sector fell 36 percent for the same period.
The figures for the entire southern border – a 27 decline in apprehensions and a 51 percent increase in marijuana seized – are encouraging, experts say.
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1 Comments:
Could the big drop in border arrests and drug siezures be the result of
1. the lack of experience by armed forces in the area of broder protection and knowledge about just what they are about.
2. Could these be the engineered result statistics that show that the administrations new stand is more effective than it really is ?
Ask yourselves WHO profits from these drop in rate statistics and just imagine some of the ways that posting, orders, operational proceedures ect. could cause them to be such.
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