Texas Game Wardens Are Now Looking For Poachers … and Terrorists
Source: Houston Public Media (NPR)
Along the Texas coast, game wardens will now carry radiation detectors.
Up and down the Texas Gulf Coast, the states game wardens are on the water, looking for people fishing or hunting illegally. But as weve reported, they sometimes come across things like illegal chemical dumpsites and more says Texas Parks and Wildlifes Tom Harvey.
Game wardens encounter all kinds of things on their patrols, including a lot of illegal fishing, and this is a new threat were gearing up to be able to address, Harvey told News 88.7.
That new threat is terrorism. One fear is that terrorists could try to smuggle radioactive material into the country by boat. The Port of Houston has for years had radiation detectors to scan cargo.
So now, besides guns and handcuffs, game wardens will have one more tool.
Read more: http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2016/03/18/141855/texas-game-wardens-are-now-looking-for-poachersand-terrorists/
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(37,748 posts)Presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the southwest border is secure enough that the government should now turn its attention to trying to legalize illegal immigrants.
I think weve done a really good job securing the border and I think those that say we havent are not paying attention to everything that was done for the last 15 years under both President Bush and President Obama, she told KTAR. We have increased dramatically the number of border security officers, we have added physical obstructions like fences in many places, and in fact the immigration from Mexico has dropped considerably. Its just not happening any more.
The numbers back up some of Mrs. Clintons claims. Border Patrol apprehensions, which are a rough measure of the flow of illegal immigrants, peaked at more than 1.6 million in 1999, when President Clinton was still in office. Theyve dropped dramatically since, to about 337,000 in 2015.
Also, the flow of new immigrants both legal and illegal from Mexico is so low that its offset by those returning home, gaining legal status here or dying.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/17/hillary-clinton-says-us-mexico-border-secure/