The U.S. Border Patrol recently has been making record hauls of illegal drugs and undocumented immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. But imagine how much more success the agency could have if the crooks and gangs operating at the border couldn’t see the agents coming.
That’s the goal of North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democratic member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
“You’ll probably laugh at this,” she recently told Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan, “but can you paint your cars a different color than white?”
Heitkamp said she made the request for border agents who told her that the agency’s white cars essentially announce that the law is nearby.
“I’m serious about this because I think that obviously, not that you should be clandestine, but if you’re a spotter on a hill in Mexico and you’re walking some drugs across the border and you see a white truck coming on the border, it’s pretty easy to radio down to the guys carrying the contraband and say, ‘Avoid this,'” she said.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
