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> grow linearly with the amount of border that needs protecting. Have the geographic borders changed in the last 25 years?

• lesuorac 4y ago
  If you read the next sentence you'd see they addressed that. > If there's more stuff coming in (eg. aliexpress shipments from china), or more border crossings (legal or otherwise), we'd expect their numbers to grow faster relative to population.
  • cwkoss 4y ago
    Thinking of every inbound package as "extending the amount of border" is mission creep nonsense IMO - it's propaganda mostly for the benefit of legislators holding the purse strings. Regardless, it doesn't justify the extensive CBP expansion outside of mailrooms.
    • gruez 4y ago
      > Thinking of every inbound package as "extending the amount of border" is mission creep nonsense IMO - it's propaganda mostly for the benefit of legislators holding the purse strings. How is it mission creep? Isn't inspecting inbound packages (ie. "customs") literally part of "Customs and Border Protection"? >Regardless, it doesn't justify the extensive CBP expansion outside of mailrooms. There are many other plausible reasons for expanding CBP outside of mailrooms, eg. war on drugs, illegal immigration, terrorists, etc.