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Leonard: Although technology has been

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a tremendous force multiplier for Tucson Sector

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and has contributed to our success here,

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it's not a stand-alone solution to border security.

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It's really attributed to the hard working

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men and women of the Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol,

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the advanced detection and surveillance technology

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that's been made available to us.

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But also collaborative enforcement efforts with other law enforcement agencies.

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I'm amazed at how well other law enforcement agencies

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are beginning at adapt to the availability of the technology

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that we have to include running record checks, to include even responding

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to targets of interest that are detected by Border Patrol technology.

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It's not uncommon to go into the field nowadays

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and hear a Border Patrol agent, technology operator,

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call out traffic and have an agent or an officer

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from another law enforcement agency actually respond to that target of interest.

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So we've long said that border security is

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the responsibility of Customs and Border Protection,

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but that national security is everyone's responsibility.

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And now criminal activity that once was the norm

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in Arizona, Tucson specifically, is now becoming the rare exception.