Letter to the Editor, NY.

Public transportation could be the next targetPublished:
November 21, 2011, 12:00 AM

As a retired Border Patrol agent, I would like to offer my perspective on some recent news items.

The current administration has halted deportation proceedings against most illegal aliens. Hundreds of thousands of unknown persons, with unknown intentions, are being allowed to remain in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security has halted all Border Patrol operations in transportation facilities in the interior. This minimally invasive monitoring of the traveling public has, historically, been one of the most productive operations for the Border Patrol in the enforcement of immigration laws.

The Transportation Security Administration director recently disclosed a very credible threat to interstate bus travel from terrorists looking for soft targets.

Does anyone else see an ominous trend for public transportation in this country when you remove the deterrent effect of a uniformed Border Patrol agent from an already soft target? And you want to replace the agents with more TSA intrusion?

Dick Mauer
Angola

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