Border security

Cartels Cut Hole In US-Mexico Border Fence

Criminals working for criminal cartels have cut a hole in a stretch of the fence along the US-Mexican border in Arizona, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told a House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee.

“Yesterday, I received an email from an agent in Arizona, and that email said that there was a 10-mile [16km] stretch for two days – and this is documented on the reports from the Border Patrol management – 10 mile stretch of border that was unmanned for two days,” Judd said. “Criminal cartels were able to go to the fence, cut a hole in the fence, drive two vehicles through that hole and escape.”

According to Judd, during a recent week-long visit of his to the Del Rio Border Patrol sector 157 known entries into the US occurred “through that station’s area of responsibility.”