Over the past week, freshman Texas congressmen Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and Chip Roy (R-TX) visited the U.S.-Mexico border to see first-hand what it is U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents deal with on a daily basis, from a security standpoint. Their visit was to the CBP-designated Rio Grande Valley Sector — which, in Fiscal Year 2017, accounted for a stunning 45.26% of all southwestern border apprehensions, despite the fact that it is but one of nine total CBP-designated southwestern border sectors.
The congressmen returned with a fairly straightforward message: Walls work, CBP is chronically understaffed, and politicians need to do a dramatically better job of providing our Border Patrol agents with the resources they need in order to be successful.
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