California Conservative

AP reports: “The man at the wheel of a roaring dune buggy rips a swirling trail over the desolate landscape on a morning ride. He veers to the south, and then whips back.

That prompts U.S. Border Patrol agent Danielle Suarez to pull him over and give him a warning. The dune rider doesn’t know it, but he just crossed into Mexico and back.”

Here, along a five-mile stretch of constantly shifting sands, the border is invisible. It’s an opportunity for drug smugglers to slip over the line and mix with the off-roading crowd — and a challenge for the agents trying to spot them.

The Imperial Sand Dunes, a desolate desert expanse, is a giant playground for all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts. On busy weekends between fall and spring, when the temperatures are tolerable, ATV riders, dune buggy fans and campers in motor homes swarm over the sands. A holiday weekend can draw close to 200,000 people.

“It’s so easy for them (smugglers) to blend in, looking for a way to get onto I-8,” Suarez says as she meanders the hills in a pickup truck. “There’s really nothing separating the two countries.”

Maybe this unstable situation is something the ACLU can look into — when they’re done going after Sean Hannity, of course.

Unbelieavable.

NOTE: Check out the Arizona Conservative for a collection of stories following the Minutemen

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