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Operation Hidden in Plain Sight
Reaction to U.S. Border Patrol comments
By Glenn Spencer –
October 24, 2009KVOA TV News in Tucson interviewed a spokesman from the U.S. Border Patrol to get their reaction to American Border Patrol's plan for a border audit. This is the exchange shown on TV:
Ed Trible, KVOA TV reporter: To be balanced we asked the Border Patrol for reaction to Spencer's plan and if they have the numbers Spencer is trying to find out.
Mario Escalante: U.S. Border Patrol Spokesman: I can't speculate there is something that we don't know. We apprehend what we can see. I cannot count something that I do not see.
Agent Escalante says the Border Patrol apprehends what they can see, suggesting that the job of the Border Patrol is to apprehend people. It is not.
The Secure Fence Act of 2006 spells out what the job of the Border Patrol really is – to maintain operational control over the border. It defines operational control as the "prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States."
The double-layered fence at Imperial Beach has cut apprehensions by more than 95%. Agents can't see many illegals at Imperial Beach because they are not crossing the fence in the first place. If we follow Escalante's reasoning the Border Patrol is not doing a very good job of apprehending people at Imperial Beach because they cannot see them. They cannot see them because they are not there. The fence is doing what Congress mandated however, i.e. preventing unlawful entries.
Escalante says, "I cannot count something that I do not see." Hmm. Of course one cannot see something unless one looks. The point of "Hidden in Plain Sight" is that people who cross the border could be seen if the Border Patrol would only look.
I know the entire border better than anyone alive and I know that border crossers can be seen. There are no jungles or heavy forests that can be used as cover. Aside from the Rio Grande River, the border lies in open desert. The Rio Grande itself is a wide river free of overgrowth and crossers are easily visible.
Over the years ABP has counted thousands of border crossers. It installed a powerful thermal camera on its ranch and aided in the apprehension of more than 1500 illegal aliens and loads of drugs.
We have spotted and tracked border intruders from the air in our Cessna – at night. I am the pilot.
Recently borderinvasionpics.com counted 440 people on border trails – in September alone.
There is no doubt that the U.S. Border Patrol has the technology and money to count how many people cross the border. The real problem is they don't want to do it because the politicized Department of Homeland Security doesn't want the American people to know the truth about the border. And, it will come up with every excuse in the book to avoid doing it. That is why American Border Patrol launched Operation In Plain Sight – to prove it can be done. If you think the people should know the truth, make a donation to ABP. It will be used to do the job, and not for anything else.
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