Military Border Enforcement Works

"The deployment of federal troops along the U.S.-Mexico border in October netted a 60 percent increase in apprehensions of illegal aliens by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, a congressional report says. The report given this month to the Senate Armed Services Committee says a Texas-based Stryker-armored reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition squadron helped CBP agents capture 2,000 illegal border crossers in New Mexico and Arizona," the Washington Times writes. "The squadron, part of Joint Task Force North (JTF-N), based at Biggs Army Airfield in Fort Bliss, Texas, was used to 'detect and report' the movement of 'transnational threats' to the U.S. Border Patrol during the 30-day Operation Western Vigilance. Adm. Timothy J. Keating, commander of the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, told the committee that the operation also detected three tunnels at the U.S.-Mexico border and one from Canada."

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