Last Thursday, a full-scale battle raged in Mexico between cartel members and the Mexican military. While this fight took place hundreds of miles south of our border, the bloodshed continues to creep closer to the United States — and we’re not really prepared.

There’s just a small number of agents guarding all 2000 miles of our southwest border, and that pool grows smaller each year, with merely 16,500 U.S. Border Patrol agents currently protecting our country.

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