See from 80 miles north of the Border
By Janice Kephart
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. New camera footage obtained by SecureBorderIntel.org time-stamped March 2 2011 shows 7 drug mules likely carrying about $50000 worth of marijuana each for a total of about $350000 in street value. For the first time on the border a regional Common Operating Picture" allowing the Border Patrol to detect locate & apprehend alien and drug smugglers as they come across the border is in place.
The trail where the motion-sensor hidden cameras were placed is 80 miles north of the border due north of the Tohono Oodham Indian Reservation.
Tohono about the size of Connecticut has seen a marked increase in drug mule traffic since the creation of two apprehension" zones on either side of the reservations boundaries. These apprehension zones" were created by the now-canceled Secure Border Initiative (SBInet) virtual fence".
(For more information on SBInet please see my earlier blog
In Two Weeks 295 Apprehensions in the Ajo SBInet Sector.)
Since its full deployment in 2010 SBInet caused such a sharp increase in apprehensions in the areas it covers that Tohono became a funnel for illegal activity causing both the cartels and alien smugglers to change their travel
methods to avoid SBInet. Instead illegals are breaching the border increasingly at Tohonos border since the reservation has no fencing and no SBInet.
Walking or driving across the border at Tohono takes smugglers due north into the militarys Barry Goldwater Range to locations where these hidden cameras pick them up very close to their load areas on the major I-8 east-west highway in Arizona just south of Phoenix.
This area is part of Pinal County where Sheriff Babeu has requested state funding for an emergency task force to deal with illegal activity like these loads seen on this hidden camera recently outlined in my blog
Ariz. Sheriff Babeu and His (Not 
Federal) Immigration Task Force.
It highlights and shows in depth how the cartels travel to these points 80 miles north of the border in my mini-documentary
Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 3: A Day in the Life of a Drug Smuggler.
Tohono Oodham was to receive the next deployments of SBInet but last year Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano froze the project and in January 2011 canceled it.
Janice Kephart writes about border & identity security the implementation of 9/11 Commission recommendations and leadership-organizational issues concerning the Department of Homeland Security. She is currently Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies.
