David Martin and David Turning are livestock inspectors for the New Mexico Department of Agriculture, and every year for about three weeks, they travel around the state checking equipment on ranches. “The ranchers buy and sell across these scales so they need someone to certify them and that's what our department does,” said Turning. However checking scales is not all that's being inspected this year. “We're basically looking for anything that's out of the ordinary, make sure there's nobody out here,” said Deputy Trini Garcia of the Luna County Sheriff’s Office. Trini and Deputy David Justice of the Hildago County Sheriff’s Office were assigned to escort the inspectors Wednesday for security purposes. Turning said they've been denied law enforcement escorts in the past, but since violence along the border has risen, their wish has finally come true. “It allows us to do what we need to do and just check the scale and we're on to the next one,” said Turning. Law enforcement officials said since it's too difficult smuggling humans or drugs at major ports of entries, that's why there's an increase of traffic along the rural areas of the border. “This would be a perfect pickup point to leave your drugs and have someone drive through it and continue on,” said Justice...more
“This would be a perfect pickup point to leave your drugs and have someone drive through it and continue on,” said Justice.
Is our Congressional Delegation listening?
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