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Posted by: monte-g 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Despite efforts to add Border Patrol agents to areas where immigrant traffic is high and drug violence is flaring, officers assigned to the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico are bunched up near the California coast. And some critics see politics at play.

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aniokly3 weeks, 1 day ago

We need to finish the Border fence, and hire more agents for better control. We had a border Agent held at gunpoint by Mexicans on the American side of the border. They should never have gotten back across without being fired upon.
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pc253 weeks, 1 day ago

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An Associated Press analysis of Border Patrol staffing shows that the San Diego sector, with the shortest section of border and fences covering half the boundary, has four times the number of agents per mile that West Texas does and three times as many as most of Arizona.

we definitely need to finish the fence and hire more agents.
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