DEA report: Minutemen reduced drug trafficking (1 Viewer)

[Little-Acorn]

This is the main reason I joined the Minutemen: They are effective. When they are on station, illegal border crossings, with or without drugs, are stopped cold. Unfortunately they can't stay there 24/7, across the entire 2,000 mile border. They have jobs, lives etc.

It would have the same effect if the Border patrol were at those stations instead of the Minutemen. "Eyes on the border" are effective no matter whose they are. But the BP is badly undermanned, and they can't cover the entire border any more then the Minutemen can.

While I know well why the Minutemen can't do the whole job as it should be done, I'm less clear on the reasons why the Border Patrol can't be beefed up to the point where it could. With a $seven-trillion-plus budget, we can't spare less than a fraction of one percent of it to safeguard our border?

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DEA Report: Minutemen reduced drug trafficking

Lupita Murillo Reports
July 12, 2006 06:46 AM PDT

The Minuteman Project formed for one purpose: to protect the border, and it has, according to an internal Drug Enforcement Agency report.

The report credits the border watch group with helping to cut down on drug trafficking.

This intelligence report obtained by News 4 says that the Minuteman Project had an impact on drug trafficking in Cochise County in 2005.

DEA officials say bulk loads of marijuana crossing the border dropped siginificantly.

Anthony Coulson, with DEA says, "When you have eyes on the border -- I think any law enforcment will admit this -- you have a great deterrent effect of keeping things away."

The report says that, during April and May 2005, several high-profile operations targeting illegal immigrant smugglng operations may have impacted drug smuggling operations and the usual flow of illegal drugs corss the Arizona and Mexico border.

A graph shows a 20% decrease between 2004 and 2005.

But the Minuteman Project isn't the only reason there was a reduction.

Mexican President Vicente Fox also sent in a significant amount of resources to the area. [Editor's note: For or against? - LA]

Special Agent Coulson says, "Drug organizations didn't want to risk coming up through that area. Things just sat."

Loads of marijuana were warehoused in communities along the Mexican side of the border.

"They just kind of hunkered down, waiting til the Minuteman Project was over and there was a stand-down of the Mexican law enforcement and military presence on the nothern part of their border."

There was also an increased presence of Border Patrol agents during that time, so all that adds up to keeping drugs from coming across.


(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)

 

[cherokee]

This is the main reason I joined the Minutemen: They are effective. When they are on station, illegal border crossings, with or without drugs, are stopped cold. Unfortunately they can't stay there 24/7, across the entire 2,000 mile border. They have jobs, lives etc.

It would have the same effect if the Border patrol were at those stations instead of the Minutemen. "Eyes on the border" are effective no matter whose they are. But the BP is badly undermanned, and they can't cover the entire border any more then the Minutemen can.

While I know well why the Minutemen can't do the whole job as it should be done, I'm less clear on the reasons why the Border Patrol can't be beefed up to the point where it could. With a $seven-trillion-plus budget, we can't spare less than a fraction of one percent of it to safeguard our border?

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http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5138629&nav=menu216_1

DEA Report: Minutemen reduced drug trafficking

Lupita Murillo Reports
July 12, 2006 06:46 AM PDT

The Minuteman Project formed for one purpose: to protect the border, and it has, according to an internal Drug Enforcement Agency report.

The report credits the border watch group with helping to cut down on drug trafficking.

This intelligence report obtained by News 4 says that the Minuteman Project had an impact on drug trafficking in Cochise County in 2005.

DEA officials say bulk loads of marijuana crossing the border dropped siginificantly.

Anthony Coulson, with DEA says, "When you have eyes on the border -- I think any law enforcment will admit this -- you have a great deterrent effect of keeping things away."

The report says that, during April and May 2005, several high-profile operations targeting illegal immigrant smugglng operations may have impacted drug smuggling operations and the usual flow of illegal drugs corss the Arizona and Mexico border.

A graph shows a 20% decrease between 2004 and 2005.

But the Minuteman Project isn't the only reason there was a reduction.

Mexican President Vicente Fox also sent in a significant amount of resources to the area. [Editor's note: For or against? - LA]

Special Agent Coulson says, "Drug organizations didn't want to risk coming up through that area. Things just sat."

Loads of marijuana were warehoused in communities along the Mexican side of the border.

"They just kind of hunkered down, waiting til the Minuteman Project was over and there was a stand-down of the Mexican law enforcement and military presence on the nothern part of their border."

There was also an increased presence of Border Patrol agents during that time, so all that adds up to keeping drugs from coming across.


(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)

If this is true thats good news!
Keep up the good work.

 

[Befuddled_Stoner]

Good job men. Despite earning the enmity of stoners everywhere, you can rest assured that the miniscule impact you’ve had on the flow of drug traffic has earned you the blessings of those whose already lucrative profits have been increased by your efforts.

 

[Binary_Digit]

Good job men. Despite earning the enmity of stoners everywhere, you can rest assured that the miniscule impact you’ve had on the flow of drug traffic has earned you the blessings of those whose already lucrative profits have been increased by your efforts.

True enough, but he's only doing his job. The laws need changed, not the way we enforce them.