More effort needed

I am a retired law enforcement officer with more than 30 years experience, and after reading the checkpoint story in the June 7 Green Valley News, I am finding more problems than answers with the proposed permanent checkpoint and the the border in general.

The writer of the story seemed impressed at the captures made at the checkpoint while the protest was going on, but what I saw was that apparently the border inspection failed to spot these incidents, which really worries me, because it indicates that the border isn’t working.

Just because a few people were ignorant enough to go through the checkpoint doesn’t mean that there aren’t many more who have the intelligence to go around a permanent (or temporarily permanent) checkpoint.

It seems to me that more effort needs to be concentrated at the border and in random and constantly moving checkpoints and roving patrols which would cover what does get through the border.

I feel that the permanent complex that the Border Patrol has proposed is basically giving Santa Cruz County to Mexico because it sounds like that is where the border will be moved to.

It is too bad that there are so many dedicated officers in the Border Patrol who are trying to do their job and just want to have the ability to do it, but are being stifled by management, as is the case in most instances of big government. The worst thing is that it’s taxpayer safety, service and money that is being wasted.

Barry Young, Green Valley