Statement by the National Association
of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO)
For immediate
release
What is clear is this: yet
again, an agent has been murdered and another wounded. Despite
assurances from this administration that the border is secure and under
control, it remains a dangerous place, far too open to smuggling, controlled
as much by the transnational criminals as by the United
States.
In recent years
NAFBPO has argued against the baseless claims that the border is under
control. It is not, and this murder offers one more example of that sad fact.
Furthermore, for some time NAFBPO has been certain that as pressure on
drug smuggling routes in the Nogales/Tucson corridor increases the
transnational criminals will move to areas further east that are less heavily
monitored. This event supports that conclusion.
Despite the
clear probability that transnational criminals will move their
operations to less patrolled areas, some environmental groups in New Mexico
want to establish wilderness areas or a national monument in Dona Ana County,
adjacent to the border. If that is done, the Border Patrol will be hampered in
its operations. NAFBPO is baffled at the invitation being extended to
the lawless elements that would certainly expand their operations in a
protected area so close to the Mexican border.
The border insecurity that exists
now is a national security and a public safety issue that must be addressed in
serious fashion, not with hollow statements from the
Department of Homeland Security that all is well. It demonstrably is
not.
Kent Lundgren, Chairman
National Association of Former
Border Patrol Officers
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