Border fence cited as deterrent to crime

The Washington Times
"Building fences along high-traffic areas of the U.S. border with Mexico dramatically reduces crime, the president of the Border Patrol union told Congress yesterday.
'Drug smuggling was rampant' in the border area just south of San Diego, said T.J. Bonner, national president of the National Border Patrol Council, before a fence was constructed. 'Anarchy reigned, and there was no semblance of control over that section of the border.'
Mr. Bonner said that after the fence was built, with surplus military steel landing mats, drug seizures tapered off and the crime rate fell sharply." Continue.