Border Security Defined and Measured
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Vet points to smuggling trails from back of ABP's Cessna
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Fox News -- July 6
Fox News Surveys Arizona-Mexico Border
Reporter surveys Southern border by air
...In the plane's cockpit is Glenn Spencer, president and founder of American Border Patrol. Headquartered in Hereford, an unincorporated community just north of the border, it bills itself as the only non-governmental organization that monitors America's southwest border on a regular basis, generally by air.
Spencer, 73, has been acting as a watchdog of U.S. Customs and Border Protection since 2003.
"I'm trying to develop a way to evaluate how well the Border Patrol is doing," he said. "I've been at this a long time. I know the problem with the border. It's an old axiom: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it."
Arizona's heated immigration debate, fueled in large part by a new law that allows authorities to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally, has stoked the fire driving both men to expose what they say is an "open" border. Spencer said he spends at least three or four hours a week monitoring the border from the sky.
He funds his operation with help from private donations and direct mail solicitations, and his primary wish is to determine exactly how many people enter the U.S. illegally every year.
 See: Hidden in Plain Sight, by Glenn Spencer |
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