Border checks limited to speed traffic

Border checks limited to speed traffic – - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Texas have been ordered to abbreviate national security checks at one of the nation”s busiest ports of entry to speed up travel between the United States and Mexico, according to official documents and multiple interviews with agents.
An Aug. 16 memorandum from CBP El Paso field office Director Luis Garcia directs agents to limit inspections of vehicle and pedestrian border crossers as wait times escalate. The document, obtained by The Washington Times, sets new guidelines that border inspectors say undermine efforts to prevent terrorists and other criminals from entering the United States.

The memo says:

• If wait time is 45 minutes or less, officers are required to query all drivers and passengers older than 18 and ensure that the license plate is correct.
• If wait time is 45 to 60 minutes, customs officers are to query only the driver and 50 percent of the passengers. Also, the officers are not to conduct compartment checks and density-meter readings used to find contraband.
• If wait time is 60 to 120 minutes or more — the average wait at the numerous crossings — they are to query only the driver and ensure that the license plate is correct.
“At 30 to 40 minutes of ‘wait time,’ we were querying the driver only at the request of our supervisors,” said an El Paso customs agent, who spoke with The Washington Times this month on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.

Leave it to government bureaucrats to come up with a dumb delusional system of border checks that does little to prevent illegals or drugs from entering this country. Now illegals and drug runners can just wait until it is busy and drive right in. The correct way to handle the traffic problem is to have more traffic lanes and officers. However, that will cost more money and our government politicians and bureaucrats will not spend the money to make America secure. What will be the costs to America when a terrorist action is successful? What are the costs to America to pay for the welfare programs of illegals? What are the costs to America because drugs can come across our borders almost unhindered?