Tuesday 10-10-06 - Saturday 10-14-06

Tuesday 10-10-06 - Saturday 10-14-06

Sign was detected from only one group that crossed where our current fencing project ends. The group of four left deep foot prints in our drag road, which may indicate that they were carrying a heavy load usually associated with narcotics traffickers. This was reported to Border Patrol and was followed up on in part of an ongoing investigation. A single south side scout was also spotted during a 15 minute shift change gap left by both Border Patrol an National Guard. We have made a point of covering these time periods to further increase the effectiveness of the new National Guard presence. We continued installing fencing along our newest stretch of patrol road and were able to install over 100 yards total for the week. This may not seem like much, but considering there were no more than four people working on it at any one time; some progress is better than none. Over night watch was set using the thermal image system. We missed one crossing that was observed by the National Guard minutes after passing by that section. The group of two crawled across the government road and dug under our fence. They left ample sign on top of our freshly dragged road. Border Patrol responded but did not make any apprehensions. A second crossing, also with two intruders, was documented at 03:00. We observed both individuals crawling across the road as before. We responded immediately and were able to chase this pair back south. We believe their purpose was to scout for holes in the joint NG/USBP/USE detection network. No further crossings were detected until Friday during afternoon shift change. Sign from a group of four was detected on our dragged road. Border patrol was notified. Saturday we discovered that part of our secondary chain link fencing had been cut to the ground right under a National Guard position, suggesting the heavy brush creates a real blind spot. Sign from a group of 20 was detected and reported. An additional group of 15 was discovered waiting by the fence ready to cross. They were deterred until the fence was repaired.