Spotting Hidden Human Traces Main Measure Of Security At U.s. Border With Mexico

ELLIOT SPAGAT, Talking Points Memo
Mon, 04/22/2013 - 6:25am

CAMPO, Calif. (AP) -- Richard Gordon is one of the Border Patrol's best at spotting the smallest human traces in pursuit of people who enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico: dusty footprints, torn cobwebs, broken twigs, overturned pebbles. It's a skill he has sharpened over the last 16 years in the craggy, shrub-covered mountains east of San Diego and one that is taking on new importance as gauging border security has emerged as a potential stumbling block to an overhaul of the U.S.

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