“The border’s always been wide open. When I first got here, all we had was a three-strand barbed wire fence — and most of it was down.”
Aaron Veckey, a 20-year Border Patrol veteran, recalls smugglers driving vehicles loaded with thousands of pounds of contraband straight into the U.S., and ultralight aircraft dropping loads “daily, post-9/11.”
James O’Keefe adds, “It’s amazing what people will ignore when they’re told to look the other way.”
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