Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The Border Patrol may have enough employees to handle the flood of immigration, but the Associated Press found that the agency places too many agents in the wrong places.
The AP report indicates that many agents are stationed in areas where crossing activity is slow because of the “constantly shifting migration patterns.”
For example, the San Diego sector has about 2,500 agents, who detained 97 immigrants illegally crossing the border on June 14. On the same day, 1,422 immigrants were captured in the Rio Grand Valley, where 3,200 agents are stationed.
The mismatched border protection comes as President Obama plans to ask Congress for more than $2 billion to address a growing crisis on the Texas border where an increase of Central Americans crossings is causing cramped, squalid conditions.
Border Patrol officials said immigrants often shift migration routes depending on the abundance of agents on the border.
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