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(CNSNews.com) -- The U.S. side of the southwest border is home to “some of the safest communities in America,” Gene Garza, the director of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)in the Laredo, Texas field office, told lawmakers on Tuesday.
Garza testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security on May 1 at a hearing entitled, “Using Technology to Facilitate Trade and Enhance Security at Our Ports of Entry.” The CBP is a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Garza said he based his assessment of the safety of U.S. communities along the southwest border to information derived from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), a compilation of annual U.S. crime statistics.
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However, the U.S. Attorneys’ Annual Statistical Report for Fiscal Year 2011 paints a different picture, showing that 80 percent of all cases filed against criminal defendants in U.S. Magistrate Courts were filed in districts along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Both the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys are components of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Although the most recent U.S. Attorneys’ report makes no direct mention of U.S. border violence, the FY 2010 report states, "Violence along the border of the United States and Mexico has increased dramatically during recent years. The violence associated with Mexican drug trafficking organizations poses a serious problem for law enforcement personnel."
Originally posted by xuenchen
Now why would he say all that ?
Originally posted by xuenchen
I wonder if he knows anything about the towns and communities on the Other Side of the border !!
Originally posted by Humint1
reply to post by xuenchen
The executive levels of the C.B.P. are out of touch with their on the ground bretheren. They are fed result oriented stats and figures that executive level types like him can report to his superiors. In return he is ultimately given the credit for all of this "progress" and rewarded accordingly.
McCraw said the FBI crime statistics highlighted by the CBP about safe border communities fail to provide a full assessment of the situation on the ground.
As McCraw testified, “To accurately assess the overall criminal impact of an unsecure border on Texas requires the syntheses of several different variables within and outside the border region."
Meanwhile, the ground agents continue to struggle trying to hold that crappy peice of the nation together. Just ask the people who live there if anyone really cares to know the truth.