Report: Lack of Permanent Checkpoints Lowers Arizona Defense
"Congress' decision to bar the U.S. Border Patrol from building permanent
highway checkpoints on the Arizona-Mexico border has led to a 'substantial drop' in the arrests of illegal aliens at temporary checkpoints now operating in the nation's busiest immigration corridor, according to a report," the Washington Times writes. "The 260-mile stretch of border, known as the Tucson sector, is the only one of 20 Border Patrol sectors nationwide not permitted to set up permanent checkpoints . . . Rep. Jim Kolbe, Arizona Republican, was the chief sponsor of legislation outlawing permanent sites in the Tucson sector. His bill requires the agency to relocate the checkpoints every 14 days, although the requirement is expected to be lowered to seven-day intervals in fiscal 2006."
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