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Ok, so no one from the Pentagon has actually been to the border? See the credibility issue?
And again, they don't have to! That's why we have a Border Patrol agency and ICE agents and the FBI and a Dept. of Homeland Security - federal agencies working in concert w/local authorities to catch the bad guys. No, it didn't work very well in the lead-up to 9/11, but alot has changed since then and there hasn't been another such event on U.S. soil since. That certainly doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but if every agency from bottom to top and back down again are sharing intelligence information and doing their part to catch the bad guys, we shouldn't have to worry about it.
At this stage, however, I put more of the blame for the holes in our southern border security efforts squarely on Congress, mostly on Republicans. They continue to rant on and on about these illegal alien border crossings, but the moment you ask for federal funds to shore up the leaks, they fall back on "secure the border" first with a fence knowing full well that until you get the manpower behind the surveillance and capture efforts, any attempt to build a fence line will fail. Frankly, I find the idea of a fence along our southern (or northern) border appalling. I mean, how does Reagan get away with demanding that Gorbachev "tear down this wall" but it's just fine for America to build one.