Thread: Alan Bersin on Border security

5. U.S. Customs: 500,000 Troops Needed to Seal Border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin has essentially thrown in the towel on efforts to completely seal the U.S.-Mexican border, saying that would require up to half a million troops.

Speaking at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Thursday, Bersin said: “We would need on the order of about 400,000 or 500,000 border patrol agents to seal the border.â€

Our troops will need jobs,since Im sure alot of them dont have jobs to come back to!

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The United States has trained nearly 4,500 new federal police agents and assisted in conducting wiretaps, running informants and interrogating suspects. The Pentagon has provided sophisticated equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters, and in recent months it has begun flying unarmed surveillance drones over Mexican soil to track drug kingpins.

In recent weeks, small numbers of C.I.A. operatives and American civilian military employees have been posted at a Mexican military base, where, for the first time, security officials from both countries work side by side in collecting information about drug cartels and helping plan operations. Officials are also looking into embedding a team of American contractors inside a specially vetted Mexican counternarcotics police unit.

U.S. Widens Role in Battle Against Mexican Drug Cartels

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-246142.html

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