Border Patrol official to Congress: 'We can't arrest our way out of this problem'

[rangerrebew]

Border Patrol official to Congress: 'We can't arrest our way out of this problem'

By Greg Norman

Published May 10, 2019
Fox News

A top U.S. Border Patrol official tells Fox News that the immigration situation unfolding in America is "no longer constrained to the border" – forcing other officers to be pulled away from their duties to deal a crisis that is “beyond the breaking point.”

Chief Rodney Scott of the agency’s San Diego sector made the comments on "Fox & Friends" Friday while noting that agents have arrested more than a half a million people at the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year.

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-official-says-immigration-crisis-beyond-breaking-point

[Fishrrman]

'We can't arrest our way out of this problem'

THAT's why there must be a permanent and all-but-unbreachable border barrier the entire length of the border, from the Pacific to the Gulf.

With a "no man's land" between the primary barrier and a secondary barrier to trap anyone who manages to get across the primary barrier until the troops can gather him up. And yes, TROOPS -- not border patrol.

A Fishrrman first:
I advocate that we militarize the border patrol agents, make them part of the active-duty U.S. Military. Kind of a "Coast Guard" on wheels.

I also recommend that any border barrier have a series of "one-way-turnstiles" (similar to those used in the NYC subway). They should lead back to the Mexican side. Anyone apprehended in no-man's land should be offered a choice:
- go to jail immediately, or
- walk "through the turnstile" back to the other side.