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Border Reality Check

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"We're never going to stop them, never. This was happening before I was born, and it will be happening long after I am gone. There is no way to shut the river down."

--Carlos Gonzalez, who has served 20 years with the Border patrol along the Rio Grande River, on the futility of efforts to stop illegal immigration from Mexico, in the Los Angeles Times.

 

Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.

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