Border control affecting US jump sites near Mexican border
I was near the Mexican border last spring. It was for a jump that got cancelled due to inclement weather. I was shocked as to how draconian our border control had become. It felt like what I would envision check point charly would have been. The idea of visiting any sites near the Mexican border on the US side seems to be out of the question now. I've included a statement from the news regarding Bush's intention of using unmanned drone aircraft to patrol our border in addition to the more than 10 fold increase of general border control that has occurred in the last 3 years, without affecting the flow of immigrants seeking work in the U.S. Perhaps my rant should be in the bonfire forum. EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush promised the use of unmanned flying drones on Tuesday to help patrol the porous U.S.-Mexican border as Democrats charged he had not done enough to provide border security.
Wrapping up a two-day swing to promote his plans to overhaul U.S. immigration laws, Bush rode in a black sport utility vehicle along a bumpy dirt road on the American bank of the Rio Grande.
On one side he could see over the dry riverbed to Ciudad Juarez and on the other El Paso's skyline. His motorcade traveled along an electrified chain link fence with tactical lighting and topped with barbed-wire skirts.
Along the route, he saw armed Border Patrol guards in green uniforms in vehicles or on horseback. More than 1,300 of them police "the line" as they call the 266 miles of border in the El Paso sector.
