On September 2, 2009, Congresswoman Giffords organized a community meeting in Green Valley, Arizona to discuss the recent findings of a GAO study regarding interior Border Patrol checkpoints. The study was requested in 2007 by several Congressmen in direct response to public outcry in Southern Arizona regarding Homeland Security plans to establish a permanent suspicionless federal checkpoint South of Tucson along I-19.
Before continuing, it should be noted the intent of the Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security has always been to force a permanent checkpoint down the throats of Southern Arizonans regardless of the level of public outcry or the conclusions of the GAO report:
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