Hundreds of migrant families arrive at remote border crossings, overwhelming U.S. agents
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"Antelope Wells is the site of one of about three dozen Border Patrol "forward operating bases" in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — bare-bones facilities designed to increase enforcement in remote areas. About four agents are assigned to Antelope Wells and they sleep at the base on eight-day shifts to avoid having to drive home every day.

Migrants have told agents that they took commercial buses from Guatemala to New Mexico in four or five days straight, a sharp contrast to the traditional route that can take 25 to 30 days to reach the U.S. border and includes rest stops at "stash houses" along the way, McAleenan said.

It's unclear why Guatemalans are choosing such a remote spot, but McAleenan said it may be less expensive for smugglers to pay other criminal organizations fees to pass through. The U.S. is working with Mexico to determine the reasons behind it, hoping to redirect traffic to the nearest cities, El Paso and Nogales, Arizona."

They are now targeting unmanned crossing stations..... I am wondering, is it time for us to invest in land in Guatemala because it looks like that country will soon be up for grabs and very sparsely populated.

A better idea. The Browning .50 caliber machine gun has been around for a long time. A P-51 had 6 of them. There were one on each door of our Huey helicopters, on top of our tanks and armor personal carriers. Military armories have row after row of them just setting there waiting for duty. You take those guns along with some sand bags stringing them along the border making sure all have active k**l zones. Take troops from New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona who know just how much crime and welfare these i******s can steal and man those gun with orders of shoot to k**l. After a week the border would be safer and criminal free. California is not on the list because no Liberal gives back to his nation, only take and no one in California has been in the military since the draft and then it was only long enough to show them to be flaming homosexuals, cowards, or probably both.

If you look real close at the border security of many nations, you will see that the walls are not stand alone barriers, they are not unmanned or without 21st century technology. As formidable as a good wall is in preventing breaches, countries have installed military detection technology such as motion sensors, infrared sensors, laser intrusion sensors, pressure sensors, radar, light detection and ranging (LIDAR), high resolution video cameras with night vision capability, and unmanned drones. Some countries get really serious and lay in mine fields and trip wired booby traps.

Some stretches of national borders do not need a physical wall, the terrain itself is a very effective deterrent, both in the approaches to the border and the along the border itself. These can be easily patrolled by aerial drones or helicopters if the need arises.

In case you didn't know this, on recommendation from president Trump and DHS, Customs and Border Protection is moving ahead with designs for a technological and physical barrier. The overall CBP funding, as drafted in the House Homeland Security appropriations bill, includes $1.6 billion for the physical wall, plus $131 million for new border technology, $106 million for new aircraft and sensors and $100 million for an additional 500 border patrol agents.