Boats off the Water Little Help in Border Security
Tue, 2016-06-21 22:12
News Staff
ROMA — Keeping people and drugs from crossing illegally into the United States requires more than boots on the ground. In the busy smuggling corridor of Starr County, Texas, it also takes boats in the water.
But while millions of dollars in state and federal money are being showered on the Rio Grande Valley to beef up border security, the U.S. Border Patrol does not keep its boats patrolling around the clock on the 300 miles of water covered by the Rio Grande Station. As a result, Border Patrol agents are accustomed to watching smuggling action surge after the boats leave the river.