Thread: Border Patrol agents want technology, not wall: study

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Updated: 1:02 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, 2018

Border Patrol leaders and line agents say publicly that more fencing will help — but a new Democratic report Thursday says what they’re really asking for behind closed doors is more manpower and technology.

Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee reviewed assessments and resource requests filed by agents and supervisors who were asked what they needed to fill gaps in border security.

Rarely did they ask for a wall or additional fencing, the Democrats concluded, and only one of 14 “urgent and compelling” gaps involved a request for additional border barriers.

“More often, these Urgent and Compelling capability gaps were associated with technological or personnel needs, such as insufficient manpower, poor training, or inadequate surveillance equipment,” the report concluded.

President Trump has made erecting a border wall a high priority for his administration, saying it will combat the renewed surge of illegal immigrants and hinder drug trafficking. Mr. Trump ordered a competition to test new wall designs, and earlier this month traveled to San Diego to see those designs himself.

But his demands have become highly politicized, with Democrats who over the last decade had voted for hundreds of miles of additional fencing now opposing it.

The new spending bill released this week includes $1.3 billion for border fencing, delivering a small downpayment. But the numbers are not what the White House had sought, with just 33 miles of the border gaining new fencing. Another 14 miles that currently have a barriers will get a second layer of fencing, and 48 miles of existing barriers will be replaced.

Strangely, the bill does not include any money to hire new Border Patrol agents — despite the Democrats’ report saying that’s what agents most often requested to fill security gaps.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...not-wall-dem-/

No quotes from Border Patrol or the BP Union. Report from Democrats. Pretty obvious what it would say.

More LIES.

Trump was just at the border looking a the prototypes. The Border Patrol officer specifically said the WALL cut down on 95% of border jumpers on the Tijuana border! And that fence is a shambles they constantly have to patch and repair. Plus it is low enough that they dump their garbage over it.

I am sick of Mexico and their lousy people...deport them all. That is NOT "who we are as American's" to allow these breeding parasites come here and take from our hard work, blood, sweat and tears!



BUILD THE 30 FOOT WALL NOW!

DO NOT DETAIN...DEPORT WITHIN 24 HOURS AND THAT INCLUDES DACA AND THEIR ILLEGAL ALIEN PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN!

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

No quotes from Border Patrol or the BP Union. Report from Democrats. Pretty obvious what it would say.

Yep, the Democrats are playing the divide and conquer game.

We are not getting a wall. This evening on the Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham outlines the capitulation by republicans. Rasmussen says that up to 68 republicans could lose their seats in midterm elections. Budget Director Mick Mulvaney spoke out in defense of the White House support for this disaster omnibus bill. Mr. Mulvaney, an amnesty supporter, is a part of the swamp. Let us not forget that he ridiculed Congressman Steve King's comment that many illegal aliens have calves the size of cantaloupes from the weight of their drug carrying loads.