Evidence gathered in a 30-month-long aerial surveillance of the border is used to draw a connection between the new border fence being built by the Department of Homeland Security and the on-going drug war in Mexico. American Border Patrol, a non-profit Arizona corporation, uses graphic video footage showing how the new fencing has interdicted drug smuggling routes leading to desperate acts by smugglers and wars between cartels who are fighting over the remaining routes.

American Border Patrol, a non-profit Arizona corporation tried to get it into the national media on Jan. 15 with a press conference at the National Press Club. No one in the media showed up. There is a blackout of truth about the border.

"In 2007 the Department of Homeland Security constructed a 6 mile long fence, adjacent to the Columbus port of entry, it was 18 feet tall, very difficult to climb. By the end of 2007, the National Guard was gone, the fence construction continued. On Nov 21 2008 Customs and Border Protection reported "that when the new fencing was installed, apprehensions dropped by 60%, and drugs and narcotics by 100%. Today Columbus has more than 8 miles of fencing and 22 miles of vehicle barrier. "

Video transcript at time marker 7:47

"In 2008, the entire desert from Yuma to Calexico was closed off to smugglers. Along the Mexican border fencing and vehicle barriers grew from 100 miles in 2005 to more than 500 miles by the end of 2008.

"Smugglers are becoming desperate, they' re even using ultra light aircraft to move small amount of marijuana across the border . One pilot was killed near Yuma . High tech submarines are being intercepted at sea. Mexican cartels are growing cannabis plants on national forests . More drug tunnels are being discovered. Do these acts of desperation have anything to do with the fact that America is building fencing and barriers along the border. As more fencing and barriers went in more marijuana was planted north of the border and more plants eradicated. As more fencing went in the price of cocaine rose and most incredibly, as more smuggling routes were cut off drug related deaths in Mexico followed. There is no doubt that new fencing has interdicted known smuggling routes. South of Sierra Vista alone the fence now stretches for 43 miles. With more than 200 miles of new fence and 240 miles of vehicle barriers interdicting smuggling routes is it any surprise that cartels might be warring over the remaining routes?

If this is so, then there is a light at the end of the tunnel. If construction of only 200 miles of real fencing had a significant impact on drug cartels, think of what 700 miles of double layer fencing would have done. The evidence presented here argues that the congress of the United States should reinstate the Secure Fence Act of 2006, fully funded and expanded to at least 1000 miles of border. To do so would protect the people of the United States as well as the people of Mexico." end transcript - - -

El Universal (Mexico City) 6/18/09

On 6/17/09 deaths related to drug traffic in Mexico surpassed 3,000 which sets a new record since 2005, when "El Universal" began the register of executions brought about by the war between cartels. The number grew almost 80% in comparison with last year [last year when the fence was first completed and all drug activity had been reduced by over75%, now another year and the cartel are killing each other in record numbers to fight over the few remaining smuggling routes] . 1,701 victims of executions had been counted on this same date in 2008. This year the first one thousand dead took 51 days, the following one thousand 59 days and the last one thousand 58 days, an average of 17 persons assassinated daily. Chihuahua is the state with most crimes linked to drug traffic for the second year in a row. Up until yesterday they tallied 1,196, nearly 40% of the total. Only Hidalgo, Tlaxcala and Yucatan were free of executions.

Bottom line - the Border Fence WORKS!

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