Thread: TX: Off the Bus

Off the Bus

Brandi Grissom
February 11, 2010

The U.S. Border Patrol has stopped a controversial program that shipped busloads of illegal immigrants back to Mexico through the tiny, remote Texas border town of Presidio — for now.

The Border Patrol launched the Alien Transfer and Exit Program on Nov. 1, loading two buses each day with up to 47 male illegal immigrants ages 20 to 60 and transporting them from Arizona to Presidio, where they were deported to Ojinaga, Mexico. Bill Brooks, a spokesman for the Marfa Sector Border Patrol, says the program was suspended Dec. 31 — just two months after it started — because illegal cross-border traffic had dropped off. “We hit a kind of seasonal lull,â€

Rich Perry has a terrible record on illegal immigration unless it is an election year. There are almost 2,000,000 in his state.