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, April 04, 2007

Giffords tries to drum up backing for permanent I-19 checkpoints

CLAUDINE LoMONACO

Published: 04.04.2007

U.S. Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords asked skeptical residents at a town hall meeting in Sahuarita on Tuesday to give permanent checkpoints along Interstate 19 a chance.

A permanent checkpoint would come with a "web" of support technology to combat the "funneling" effect that has routed drug and human smuggling into surrounding communities, Aguilar said.

About 175 people packed Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita to discuss the checkpoint, other border security measures and the new comprehensive immigration reform legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that is co-sponsored by Giffords.

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