LEARNING FOREVER

Even though you are retired you need to keep learning and participating. That's why, when so many of our neighbors are stationed in from the TV or have their nose in a book my wife and I are out learning about out communities and its agencies. We care currently enrolled in a Citizens Academy run by the Department of Homeland Security. Here we are learning about the operation of the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection whose work is so vital to an area such as Yuma, AZ which abuts Mexico. The first of the five evening sessions found us standing in the "no man's land" between the border fence near San Luis, AZ.  (shown in the photos below) The area between the fences is regularly dragged smooth so as to show footprints of anyone trying to cross illegally. From there we went to the Port of Entry at San Luis between the U.S. and Mexico. The situation along the border will obviously be a major topic of discussion during the presidential election and we will know that most about what the situation really is.