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.

Monday, May 07, 2007

Reports: Border security funds' success varies

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau
Article Launched: 05/07/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

AUSTIN -- The sheriff and his five deputies in Presidio County were awarded $430,000 from Gov. Rick Perry last year to fight border crime under Operation Linebacker.

They made nine arrests and apprehensions.

"It may not be safer, but we have my guys out there more, which in turn deters crime and moves it somewhere else," said Presidio County Sheriff Danny Dominguez.

Sheriffs in Texas border counties all received hundreds of thousands of dollars in border security grants in 2006 from Perry. When it came to making arrests and apprehensions, though, the counties' results varied widely, according to an analysis of reports the El Paso Times obtained under the Texas Public Information Act.

Some made hundreds of arrests for serious crimes, others made few arrests at all and at least two, including El Paso, apprehended more than 1,000 undocumented immigrants.

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