Giffords, colleague demand answers on positioning of Border Patrol agents
Lawmakers eek federal inquiry

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 00:01

by Bill Hess
Herald/Review

SIERRA VISTA — Are U.S. Border Patrol agents being properly deployed in Arizona? That’s a question Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wants a nonpartisan federal agency
to answer.

She and Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, signed a letter on Aug. 26 asking the Government Accountability Office to study “the approach used by the Office of Border Patrol … to deploy and manage Border Patrol personnel and resources to secure the U.S.-Mexico border in the state of Arizona.â€