Sunday, August 10, 2014

Hidden Cameras Capture Smugglers Crossing Border 'No-Man's Land'

Via Susan 
                         
Image: Jim and Sue Chilton walk near the U.S. and Mexico border at the Chilton's ranch.

A cattle-ranching couple in southern Arizona hopes that dramatic hidden-camera video showing suspected drug or immigrant smugglers crossing their property will help persuade federal officials to shift resources southward to eliminate what they call a dangerous "no-man’s land” along the border.

“It just confirmed what we already knew,” Jim Chilton, who runs the 50,000-acre ranch with his wife, Sue, said of the video, which was filmed this spring by a border-security advocacy group. …“We have ceded to the cartels 20 miles, 30 miles inside the United States.” 

For years, the Chiltons have publicly complained — even testified before Congress -- that their ranch southwest of Tucson, which shares a 5-1/2-mile border with Mexico, has been flooded with smugglers. They’ve told of surprise encounters with groups of migrants – some of them armed –- break-ins at their home and finding piles of trash and clothing left by the trespassers.

More with video @ NBC

4 comments:

  1. no one in the gov'ment will do anything until the illegals start getting shot! then the ranchers are really in trouble!

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  2. If there is nothing to be gained, the gov will just go blind.

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