As a longtime subscriber to your magazine and someone who values your focus on issues across the West, I do take exception to your “Latest” item about Sen. John McCain’s bill to increase the Border Patrol’s access to the borderlands, (HCN, 5/25/15). I can assure you that, as a retired Border Patrol agent, any environmental damage done while agents perform border security pales in comparison to smuggling.
Wayne Lackner
Willcox, Arizona
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Damage from smugglers.
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