claim: says border fencing finished near el paso in 2010 dramatically curtailed illegal crossings, local crime and drug smuggling.
author: paul sperry
evidence_1: jan 13, 2018 ... a border patrol agent keeps an eye on the fence in el paso, texas. ... has  dramatically curtailed both illegal border crossings and crime in ... before 2010,  federal data show the border city was mired in violent crime and drug smuggling,  ... we need the wall for safety,” trump said last week while answering ...
evidence_2: says border fencing finished near el paso in 2010 dramatically curtailed illegal  crossings, local crime and drug smuggling. — politifact texas on monday, ...
evidence_3: oct 27, 2016 ... the el paso crime rate in 2015 was below the u.s. national average. ... 2016, the  security situation has dramatically improved from when the city was ... very small  in volume and are mostly smuggled at official border crossings. ..... el paso  county sheriff richard wiles said that to “have local and county law ...
evidence_4: jul 28, 2011 ... as a vicious drug war rages on the other side of the mexican border, el paso is  prospering. ... el paso and ciudad juárez lie together uncomfortably like an ....  and there is nothing illegal about crossing while pregnant — at least for now. ...  the local organization, which controlled valuable smuggling routes.
evidence_5: jul 21, 2010 ... it decided not to construct new fencing on the southern border; ... over time, this  footage captured hundreds of illegal aliens crossing ..... what was not said was  this national guard deployment is significantly curtailed in ... like terrorists, alien  and drug smugglers must travel across a border in some manner.