Heritage Fellow At The Border: Driving the Border
Landing just north of the border we meet up with a ground unit to drive some of the busiest smuggling routes. I ride with a… Read More
Landing just north of the border we meet up with a ground unit to drive some of the busiest smuggling routes. I ride with a… Read More
Lieutenant Palmer, the head of the Pima County Border Crime Unit, arranges for me to fly with his helicopter team down to the border. It… Read More
My first encounter with the Pima County Border Crime Unit was meeting with Lieutenant Jeffrey Palmer who heads up the two squads that work across… Read More
With a couple of hundred deputies, the Pima County Sheriffs office has to police most of the county and safeguard almost half of its population… Read More
In 2007, a group of bandits looking to hijack a competitor’s drug load mistakenly opened fire on 23 illegal immigrants, including three small children, hidden… Read More
Pima County sees the spillover from the cartel’s battling for control of the smuggling corridors in to the United States everyday. About 15 percent of… Read More
The character of the cartel war as seen in Pima County can be brutal. One “bandit” tactic is to organize small teams that camp out… Read More
Heritage senior fellow James Carafano recently traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border and filed a series of reports which will be featured here throughout the week…. Read More
Heritage senior fellow James Carafano recently traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border and filed a series of reports which will be featured here throughout the week…. Read More
In a first of its kind, a report from The Heritage Foundation provides a fresh look at the billions of dollars in homeland security grants… Read More