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Greg Abbott’s new border security plan spurs worries about local economy | The Texas Tribune

considering this article is a year old there must not have been too much a problem cause the plan has been in action for a year

CD when and where was this taken

Just curious. Why do you keep talking about vehicles. All of the data suggests that the overwhelming majority of illegal border crossings including those who make it in those who are apprehended are on foot and not at ports of entry.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/fentanyl-seizures-border-continue-spike-making-san-diego-national-epicenter-fentanyl

NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – August 12, 2022
SAN DIEGO – More deadly fentanyl is being seized by border officials in San Diego and Imperial counties than at any of the nation’s 300-plus ports of entry, making this federal district an epicenter for fentanyl trafficking into the United States.

In the first nine months of FY 2022 (October through June), U.S. Customs and Border Protection law enforcement agencies in San Diego and Imperial counties (CBP Field Operations and Border Patrol) seized 5,091 pounds of fentanyl – which amounts to about 60 percent of the 8,425 pounds of fentanyl seized around the entire country. Click here for CBP and Border Patrol statistics. 

These fentanyl seizures in San Diego by CBP include land ports of entry at San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Tecate, Andrade and Calexico. Seizures by Border Patrol stations within the San Diego Sector include Imperial Beach, Chula Vista, Brown Field, El Cajon, Campo, Boulevard, San Clemente and Murietta.  In addition, seizures by the Border Patrol in the Imperial Valley include El Centro and Calexico.

Mexican cartels are increasingly manufacturing fentanyl for distribution and sale in the United States Precursors are imported from China and other countries and then pressed into pills, powder or mixed into other drugs at massive, industrial-scale labs.

Undocumented immigrants who want to come and work might brave land crossing away from land ports of entry. But it's hard to carry 100# of fentanyl AND traverse a desert land crossing in the wilderness. So if you're talking about drug trafficking, you probably want larger hauls, requiring vehicles. 

BTW those patrol stations I bolded are inland. I have to go through the San Clemente checkpoint every time I come north from San Diego to Orange County. Only rarely is that checkpoint actually staffed and stopping people from rolling through at 80 mph. And in every time that checkpoint has been staffed and looking at drivers, I (a while middle-aged male) am always waved through without so much as them wanting me to roll down my window. 

So there are TONS of ways to fly under the radar. Not to say that we should take much from fiction, but if Bryan Cranston / Walter White was driving through that checkpoint, he'd absolutely NEVER get stopped. 

yes deterrents are better than the alternative

Under the catagory of the stupidest thing I ever did

One night in my Jr year at UT I and three of my buds decided we were going to drive to Mexico

Nuevo Laredo was the destination and was 240 miles in my volkswagen bug

So us 4 guys piled in the bug and off we went

When we got to the border we were waved through with no hassle

After sitting in a bar for 3 hours we decided to go back to Austin

It never dawned on me how suspicious this looked to customs

When we got to the check point we were told to park off to the side which I did

They asked us to get out of the car and a German Shepherd proceeded to sniff all four of us from head to toe

They then told us to have a seat while the dog and 3 guys proceeded to search the bug

This scared the holly crap out of me

I knew we didnt have any drugs or alcohol but you just never know if they might plant something

finally the head guy comes over and says

you drove all the way from Austin stay a few hours and you cross back over with nothing

I said yes sir

He looks at me and says youre free to go

which we did very quickly

Mexico is the middleman here guys. China is making this stuff, and sending it to Mexico so it gets here, and kills people.

China is the real problem.