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Perhaps numbers on the Border Patrol will help
Sun-Gazette Editor
Did the “Minuteman Project� succeed in demonstrating that simply increasing Border Patrol staff would do much to slow the flood of illegal immigration from Mexico? Perhaps so, if the bureaucratic reaction of Border Patrol supervisors is any guide.
Last month some 850 volunteers staffed lookout posts along a 23-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexican border near Naco, Ariz., calling in sightings of illegal border crossings. Arrests promptly plummeted to fewer than 15 a day from the usual 500 a day, as illegal border crossers moved away from what had become a heavily patrolled area.
But after the Minuteman Project concluded, Naco-area Border Patrol supervisors apparently were steamed that the Minuteman Project had demonstrated that the Border Patrol isn’t doing its job very well.
Orders came down to front-line officers, according to a Washington Times report, to make sure that the number of arrests did not go back up and thus prove the point of the Minuteman exercise.
The Times’ information came from more than a dozen disgruntled officers on the front lines of border security.
According to the report, Naco-area supervisors were smart enough to avoid clearly stating their orders in writing or to explicitly make their goal known â€â€