Of course, the numbers are nothing like that (although we do not know the actual number), but the destruction and illegal use of federal taxpayer lands and the great chance of success that the drug cartels and alien smugglers have tell a story of a border where illegal activity is high and the border remains out of control.Īs to actual apprehensions, Rep. If the entire 1,969 miles of the southwest border experienced the level of illegal entry that Arizona west of Nogales does that would be 649,770 per night or 2.38 billion over the course of a year. If illegal entry were equal across the 286 miles of Arizona border (which admittedly it is not), that would mean the illegal entry of 7,865 illegal aliens per night or 2.87 million per year just in Arizona. Over the course of a year, that would be 120,450 illegal entries just along these 12 miles of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector. The entry of 330 illegal aliens through Tohono O'odham in one night over a 12-mile stretch of border is shockingly high. Sonora Desert at I-8 at Vekol Valley Area Barry Goldwater Firing Range N of Tohono, S of Sonora and I-8Ĭ. None of this area is privately owned it is all owned and operated by the federal government with the exception of the Tohono O'odham Nation's border property.Ī best estimate of what the Border Patrol tracked in the four maps below - they do not state how many of these illegal aliens, vehicles, or drug mules were apprehended - is as follows:ī. During the night of March 23, 2012, illegal activity was significant along 12-mile stretch of border in the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation in Arizona and extending into the United States northwest about 80 miles to the Sonoran Desert National Monument's Vekol Valley on I-8 and about another 20 miles north of the interstate.
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