Grounded Surveillance Operation Nabbed 110,000 Illegal Immigrants at Border

Daily Signal ^ | November 30, 2016 | Kenric Ward

[detective]

While surveillance helicopters were grounded in Texas, the head of Customs and Border Protection called the flights critical to “countering illegal immigration” from Mexico.

Records bear that out: A government report credited Operation Phalanx with apprehending 110,000 illegal border crossers.

CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske stated in a Nov. 16 letter that Phalanx “provided tangible benefits to border security.” His letter to the Department of Defense was sent two days before it was revealed that CBP’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, had quietly halted border surveillance flights in Texas’ Laredo district.

[detective]

Obama discontinued one of the few federal government programs that actually worked.

[grobdriver]

Obama is just making Trump's job more difficult, rooting out and deporting all these leaches.

What a turd.

[politicianslie]

What a turd.

Why did Hussein Obama want to hurt the country with open borders?

Why does Hussein Obama want to stop energy exploration and keep the US dependent on buying foreign oil?

Why did Hussein Obama say he would side with the Muslims?

Why would a guy Named Hussein want to flood people who hate America into our country?

You used the wrong "T" word, Hussein is a Traitor working to make us a slave to Islam. That is what Muslims do, they lie, deceive and punish until they are in control.

[USNBandit]

I think Phalanx is the use of National Guard Lakota helicopters to compliment the CBP assets were in that AOR.

For several years the Rio Grande Valley has been the most active sector for illegal immigration. Compared to the previous hotspot, Tucson, the RGV has much smaller CBP air units. The Texas DPS and various NG Lakota units have been providing assistance.