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07-24-2006, 12:34 PM #1
Operation Lightning Strike: Border Patrol adds to security p
http://www.demingheadlight.com/news/ci_4086331
Operation Lightning Strike: Border Patrol adds to security patrols
By Kevin Buey Headlight Staff
Operation Lightning Strike hit Luna County at midnight as Friday became Saturday.
The U.S. Border Patrol, with increased numbers over its normal patrol volume, began a concerted push to apprehend illegal immigrants.
"A similar operation is currently running in Del Rio, Texas," USBP Spokesman Doug Mosier said, from El Paso. "This is going to provide the Border Patrol with a further ability to deter undocumented migrants and smugglers from making illegal entries through the two most western zones of Luna County. This operation will allow us to apprehend, detain and formally remove all migrants who enter into the U.S. through this portion of Southern Luna County. This is unprecedented. We have never done this before."
With the presence of National Guard troops helping the Border Patrol watch the border, the agency now has a three-pronged attack under way, Mosier said, consisting of regular patrol and infrastructure, National Guard and Operation Lightning Strike.
"What we've done in the past," Mosier said of handling apprehended migrants, "is we didn't have the ability to detain and process the large number of migrants apprehended and many were voluntarily returned to Mexico."
Detainees, Mosier said, will be held at the El Paso Service Processing Center, where space has been made available.
It is not against the law in Mexico, a Luna County committee that wrote a border security plan was told, to enter the United States illegally and returned migrants face no action from the Mexican government.
"This will formalize the process of being removed and it makes it a felony if those who have been removed return to the U.S.," Mosier said of ramifications on this side of the border.
Mosier declined to identify the areas covered by the two western zones.
The El Paso Sector, which covers Western Texas and all New Mexico, has 1,700 assigned agents. The Deming station had 215 on its roster as of June 1 and expected more from subsequent classes of graduating agents.
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07-24-2006, 12:40 PM #2Detainees, Mosier said, will be held at the El Paso Service Processing Center, where space has been made available.
Made available? Does that mean they let the ones they had detained loose, so they could make room for new aprehensions?
Unless they just finished building new facilities, how did they make space, "available"?REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!
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07-24-2006, 02:02 PM #3
Hmmm, shouldn't special operations like this be kept secret? If we are hearing about them - so are the drug cartels and wise coyotes. Hasn't anyone ever heard, lose lips sink ships. I'd rather here about these things after they've happend, not before or during!
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