Posted on: February 11th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Immigration ] [ Eye Openers ]
Tags: border, border patrol
The Border Patrol agent was a 30-year veteran. He walked me across a patch of desolation to the Mexican border. There was no border fence there yet. Just Arizona desert, a dusty dry creekbed, and Mexican desert beyond, indistinguishable from the United States.
If you want to hear philosophical reflections from an agent, you have to talk to old-timers. The hundreds of new Homeland Security-era officers who have flooded the border are extremely well trained - the Border Patrol academy is a monster among law enforcement training programs - and they are certainly gung-ho. But the old guys will tell you the new ones don’t know the territory very well. There are fine points it might take 30 years to learn.
“My dad was a rancher,” the veteran agent said. “I’m a rancher. I come out here and you know who I chase? Ranch hands and farmers.” He wiped his brow, toed some possibly Mexican dirt. “Buddy, I am chasing my own people.”"*
*From: http://www.sfgate.com
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