- 1 out of every 10 vehicles being searched?
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- THAT is incorrect information.
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- It is LESS than 1-2% of ALL vehicles coming into the
United States.
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- This figure was previously set by former Customs George
Weise in about April 1997 and later commissioner Raymond W. Kelly(now NYPD
commissioner) during the Clinton administration for MORE trade and facilitation
of commercial cargo and more trade, etc....
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- Do the math. 1-2% of ALL traffic coming into a particular
border inspection station where we get
- thousands of vehicles each 8 hour shift. (let's do the
math for 28,800 cars in one 8 hour shift for 24 lanes with 150 cars per
hour passing through) 28,800 times 2% equals is 576 cars or 72 cars per
hour average. On a busy day, I have seen that done. Now divide 1-2% by
ALL the border inspection stations across the United States.(300?) That
means that a national average for inspections would be less than 1-5 cars
per port of entry depending on how many cars they actually get in an 8
hour shift.
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- 1 in 10 cars is more than 2,880 cars in a 8 hour shift
at San Ysidro.(The World's largest land border port) That's 360 cars or
45 cars per hour. (more reasonable percentage) but still not currently
happening. We used to do at least 50-100 cars for enforcement or more
sometimes if we ran K-9 dogs around the traffic each 30 minutes with combined
enforcement by inspectors and K-9 dogs, but it also holds up traffic in
order to do these special enforcement inspections and NOT practical. 25-30
cars per 15 minutes, 15 minutes inspection and then another set of cars
would equal about 60-100 cars per hour. That's a LOT of work and Customs
NEVER has enough personnel to do all that. I have seen it done and actually
conducted such inspections.
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- Customs would still need about 20,000 "new"
inspectors and K-9 officials to do all this constant work. Can you imagine
doing all this 24 hours a day. 8-4P.M., 4P.M.-12 midnight, and midnight
to 0800 hours each day???
- Try 1 in 50 to 100 cars checked or more in an 8 hours
shift. That's way less than previously examined.
- This "War on Drugs" is bullshit and Washington.
D.C. knows it. Or they let the regional directors LIE to them and falsify
the statistics. They do NOT support/backing the drug agents in the field
and never have enough money or personnel to do the job. It is a BIG lie
and they are NOT serious in Washington, D.C.
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- I will be glad to testify to that in a Senate hearing.
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- P.S. I know Phil Jordan and he also knows his stuff.
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- John Carman
- <http://www.customscorruption.com/>www.customscorruption.com
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- U.S. drug officials say up to 70 percent of cocaine entering
the U.S. comes through Mexico. U.S. officials can search only about one
of every ten vehicles crossing the border and just a fraction of cargo
containers.
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