EDITOR’S NOTE – An occasional look behind the rhetoric of public officials.
SUZANNE GAMBOA
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – You wouldn’t know it from the public debate, but the U.S.-Mexico border is more fortified now than it was even five years ago. Far more agents patrol it, more fences, barriers and technology protect it and taxpayers are spending billions more to reinforce it.
Despite those efforts, calls for increased border security are elbowing out cries for an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws and inducing Congress and the administration to spend even more money on border enforcement.