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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 30, 2019, 04:00:54 pm
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CBP sounds alarm over surge of hard drugs, weapons, gang members at border despite recent gains
By Adam Shaw | Fox News
Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan says the men and women of U.S. Customs and Border Protection are heroes for risking their lives every day to save those in need.
Border officials sounded the alarm Tuesday over the surge of hard drugs, weapons and gang members being caught coming into the U.S. from Mexico -- while also touting recent progress in stemming illegal immigration since a historic spike in May.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan and Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez spoke in El Paso, Texas, with border agents and a section of newly constructed border wall behind them. He said the eye-popping interdiction numbers stand as a testament to the hard work of law enforcement on the ground, but also a sign of congressional inaction.
“They accomplished what I’m about to tell you when Congress refused to get off the sidelines, refused to do their job, refused to pass meaningful legislation to protect this country and address the loopholes in our current legal framework,†he said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cbp-hard-drugs-weapons-gang-members-at-border (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cbp-hard-drugs-weapons-gang-members-at-border)
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"CBP sounds alarm over surge of hard drugs, weapons, gang members at border despite recent gains"
All the more reason why we need the United States military guarding the border, with orders to do what is necessary to defend it.
Posse Comitatus has no application with that mission.