Ordinarily they are stolen in the United States. taken across the border. filled with some kind of contraband. be it illegal drugs or the human cargo the Coyotes pick up. and then they bring that across the border. Frequently. those vehicles are abandoned on our side of the border. representing an environmental hazard. But what the Border Patrol has discovered is that as they have begun to get more operational control or jurisdiction over the border area because of the increased number of Border Patrol agents and vehicles and fencing and so on that we have already provided. the Coyotes and the cartelsthe drug smugglers. the gangsare fighting for this operational control of territory. and they are using weapons. What the Border Patrol tells me is that whenever they see a vehicle. they know it is a problem because it has a more valuable cargo and is likely to be defended with weapons. That is one reason they are so insistent on putting vehicle barriers in some areas of the border. In some areas. fencing will not be appropriate. and cameras will do the job. I have been in the control rooms where we have one person able to monitor many different TV screens that represent the views of many different cameras. some of which are infrared. so you can see at night. This way. you dont have to have fencing all along the border you have cameras which can show you what is happening. When you see groups of illegal immigrants massing on the other side of the border. preparing to cross. the person in the control area calls the Border Patrol. and they are able to get to the location in time to stop the entry or to pick up the people and return them if they have already entered. Again. you dont need fencing across the entire border. It is not a wall.
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