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, April 17, 2007

CBP Border Patrol Seizes More Than $2 Million in Narcotics

Monday, April 16, 2007

Falfurrias, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents seized more than $2 million in illegal narcotics. The driver was arrested.

The seizure occurred April 16, when Border Patrol agents assigned to the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 281, questioned the driver of a tractor-trailer as to his citizenship. While determining the driver’s citizenship, a CBP Border Patrol canine alerted to the back of the utility-trailer. The driver was directed to the secondary inspection area where a search of the trailer led to the discovery of 107 bundles of Marijuana. The total weight of the Marijuana was 2,537 pounds with an estimated value of $2,029,600.

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