LUNA COUNTY, N.M.—A Border Patrol helicopter flew overhead in a sight Russell Johnson said was a rarity over his ranch until President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Johnson says he would like to see an even greater Border Patrol presence along New Mexico’s border with Mexico, but agents “have at least some presence on the border, [and] it’s just so reassuring that maybe this issue is actually going to get tackled,” Johnson told The Daily Signal as he drove his truck over the dirt roads on his ranch.
Just up the hill, a Border Patrol agent sat in his marked vehicle, stationed to overlook the last remaining gap in the border fence on Johnson’s ranch.
Today, there is a gap of about three-quarters of a mile in the wall…
