What Increased Border Enforcement Means in Reality

This is not really news, but the Washington Post ran an article today that is relevant as the nation debates thr need for greater border enforcement:

An Increasingly Deadly Trail Tighter Border Has Illegal Immigrants Risking More Perilous Route

It was early on a May morning, still dark, when Border Patrol agent Dan McClafferty first smelled death, its rich odor piercing the desert bouquet of sage, salt cedar and creosote. Following the beam of his flashlight, McClafferty looked under the thorny branches of a paloverde tree and found what he was looking for. The body of the 3-year-old boy lay still, covered with a jacket and his arms crossed over his chest. His mother, found wandering along a desert highway hours earlier, had carried him there as she had tried to cross into the United States illegally. The sad discovery was not unique. Since 1993, when the Clinton administration began a crackdown on border crossings in San Diego and El Paso, more than 3,500 people have died trying to cross into the United States through desert. And, as officials work to put more patrols and fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, immigrant advocates fear there will be more deaths among the tens of thousands who attempt the trip.

For the full story, click here.

I mention above that this is not news because thousands of migrants have died as a result of increased border enforcement  that began escalating in the early 1990s.  Check out www.stopgatekeeper.org for the running death toll directly resulting from Operation Gatekeeper near the U.S./Mexico border in Southern California.  Shame on us for letting these deaths happen.

KJ