Union: 10 miles of Arizona border unmanned for 2 days

[Omaha Steve]

Source: KENS

PHOENIX — A 10-mile stretch of the Arizona border with Mexico was left unmanned for two days, allowing criminal cartel members to cut a hole in the fence, drive two vehicles into the U.S. and escape, according to the head of the national Border Patrol union.

Brandon Judd, president of the 16,500-member National Border Patrol Council, told Congress that surveillance cameras spotted the two vehicles inside the U.S.

Agents who investigated found tracks indicating the vehicles had entered through the hole.

The cartel members put the fence back up and tried to hide the cuts they made, Judd said.

FULL story at link.




Read more: http://www.kens5.com/news/nation-now/union-10-miles-of-arizona-border-unmanned-for-2-days/103812174

[Cryptoad]

1. Why is this in LBN?

[Omaha Steve]

2. In humor...

[7962]

8. Why does it not fit the criteria? Today's news, national interest, not opinion, etc.

Seems like news to me.

[Roland99]

3. Unmanned for two days? Unplanned non-coverage or planned?

[840high]

4. Unacceptable.

[Goblor]

5. This is not

a big deal. Not sure why it's news. I worked in the borderlands for a couple years and know people and drugs get through regularly, even in constantly manned/patrolled areas. Who knows what those people were carrying? Seen them with my own eyes: Backpacks, drug bundles etc. ...

The article seems to be designed to spread fear.

[passiveporcupine]

7. I agree

Also there seems to be someone on border patrol who doesn't like Obama saying our borders are safer than they used to be. Is it possible this was deliberate so they could say "Gotcha".

And how do they know the vehicles were from a cartel (ooooh scary) ..and not just bringing in a bunch of people?

[840high]

11. If this is true - then our

borders are not safe.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

14. Why would you think that our borders

can't be crossed easily?
We used to routinely cross them whenever we wanted.
No one can guarantee absolute safety.

[Crowman1979]

12. Plus, how do we know if these border agents weren't paid off by the cartels?

Of course these a-holes want to keep that police state/prison/military industrial complex money rolling in.

This goes along with a heroin epidemic resulting from protecting the massive poppy fields in Afghanistan.

[Ptah]

6. Is this the union that endorsed Trump?

[matt819]

9. Something smelly here

What's the point? Too many nanswered questions and too much innuendo.

Is every foot of the border patrolled 24x7? Under typical circumstances, how often, and for how long, and how much, of the border is not patrolled?

What about general staffing of the border patrol? Are they understaffed? By how much? Why? Is this part of the sequester?

If it was uncovered, how does to union know it was breached by "the cartel"?

As I said, too many unanswered questions. Whoever release this story has an agenda. What a shock!

[Kali]

10. pfffttt cover the border itself?

they are too busy running checkpoints 50 miles inside the US side and hassling citizens even further in.

(to be fair there are many segments of the border that are extremely remote and rugged, but they are operating way this side of the border too much if you ask me)

[A Simple Game]

13. Not just in the south, I see their checkpoints in the north country of New York too.

It's not uncommon to see them just sitting in a vehicle like the police would for a speed trap.