Border Agents: ‘We’re Never Going to Stop Them, Never’

Posted on: August 13th, 2006
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Immigration ] [ Politics ] [ Top Stories ]
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“This was happening before I was born, and it will be happening long after I am gone. There is no way to shut the river down.”

“Though politicians and regular folks all over America agree that stopping illegal immigration starts with sealing the border, agents on the front line are under no illusions that they can catch everyone ”” even with the 6,000 extra agents that President Bush plans to put on the border over the next two years.

The challenges of policing the southernmost boundary with Mexico were clearly visible recently as Gonzalez and two other agents fanned out on different shifts across the Rio Grande Valley sector, a stretch of 18 counties that ends where the river ”” feared for its murderous whirlpools and undertow ”” calmly empties into the Gulf of Mexico. “

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