Richard Gordon: Stumbling Block

Border Patrol Dept: 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. immigration system, according to Calgary Herald. It's not the new cameras, sensors and airborne radars and CAMPO, Calif. - Richard Gordon is one of the U.S. 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. With lawmakers demanding more measures of border security and assurances that massive spending increases on enforcement yield results, Gordon's skill, known as "sign-cutting," will likely get greater focus because it is the Border Patrol's dominant technique to count those who escape capture. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.