Border- also scroll to attachments- pdf - OTM's - 3 years ago and these are only the ones interdicted.........

"I would like to briefly discuss how the Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition was formed. On April 18th, 2005, I sent out letters to my 15 colleagues whose counties border the Republic of Mexico. In my letter to them I invited them to a meeting to discuss unique problems that we face along the border. This was done out of frustration in what I felt was the inadequacy of our federal government to protect our border in preventing a potential terrorist from entering our country. I felt that as a citizen of this great country, our almost 2,000 miles of border was very porous, that many people whose intentions were unknown were coming into our country to perhaps commit acts in our own country similar to or worse than what happened on September 11, 2001, where over 3,000 innocent persons lost their lives. All of us expressed the same frustration since we had mentioned this many times to federal and state legislators. We felt that perhaps speaking as one voice we would be heard...........

[Sheriff Border security]