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Cochise County Arizona Sheriff says Border Patrol management is holding agents off of some parts of the border because it is to violent and shooting could cause an international incident.

So are they just for show? 1200 token troops really won’t do much of anything to stop the flow of drugs, criminals, weapons, illegals and terrorists flowing in from Mexico. It is almost laughable when you consider that at the same time the Obama administration is suing Arizona to prevent enforcement of illegal immigration laws.

The Senate agreed Thursday to add $600 million to the effort to stop the flow of illegal immigrants across the U.S. Mexican border. – AP

What planet is he living on? “The border is more secure and more resourced than it has ever been, but there is more to be done,” said Alan Bersin, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, part of the Homeland Security Department.

A new overtime directive issued at the agency’s Washington headquarters will limit their ability to get their jobs done, reduce coverage during peak smuggling periods and allow more criminals to avoid apprehension.

“It is a storm that’s only going to get worse,” said a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who has investigated Mexican drug cartels. “Our law enforcement agents are on the front lines of a war that is embedded deeply in Mexico.”

Rock throwing boy killed by border patrol was on most wanted list for human trafficking and had been deported multiple times. US Atty Gen holder ignores illegal smuggling aspect of incident.

Environmental laws protecting grizzlies and other wild animals along rural portions of the U.S.-Canada border have handcuffed U.S. Border Patrol and Department of Homeland Security agents, potentially making it easier for would-be terrorists to slip into the country.

They know. The answer is there is no goal to seal the border from the influx of anything.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the nation’s toughest legislation against illegal immigration Friday, a sweeping measure that supporters said would take handcuffs off police but which President Barack Obama said could violate people’s civil rights.