What Does a 'Secure' Border Look Like?

BRIAN SKOLOFF
Source: Associated Press
Created: February 24, 2013

There is no simple yardstick to measure border security; but as the debate ramps up, many will try.

AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Santos Flores walks in front of a section of old border fence, left, where it meets a five-mile section of new border fence at the border in Nogales, Ariz on June 19, 2008.
U.S. Border Patrol Agent Santos Flores walks in front of a section of old border fence, left, where it meets a five-mile section of new border fence at the border in Nogales, Ariz on June 19, 2008.

"The drugs are going to keep coming. The people are going to keep coming. The only thing you can do is contain it as much as possible.

"I say the border is as safe and secure as it can be, but I think people are asking for us to seal the border, and that's unrealistic," he said.

Asked why, he said simply: "That's the nature of the border."

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Spagat reported from San Diego; Llorca from El Paso, Texas; Sherman from McAllen, Texas; and Skoloff from Phoenix. Also contributing to this report was AP writer Cristina Silva in Phoenix.

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