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Most of the action is within 10 miles of the border. I-10 is 47 to 77 miles north of the border as it passes through Cochise County.

Our local Border Patrol agents are good. Last year they were catching an average of 430 per night. That's a lot of prisoners to transport, process, and deport. How many large cities get that many prisoners every night? And this is just one little 80 mile stretch of the border.

Get-aways are another question. When asked about get-aways, the Border Patrol's management drones just tend to mumble. The more optimistic field agents think they catch only one-third of those crossing the border; the more pessimistic think it's more like one-fifth.

So, if you catch 430, anywhere from 860 to 1,720 are getting away every night. What is really bad is that those figures are from last year -- before Kolbe forced them to close the checkpoints. The figures are probably far worse now that they can hit their ride almost immediately.