SW Border crisis: 95% of illegals, drugs get in from Mexico undetected

Despite a $100 billion investment in strengthening the U.S.-Mexico border, there are vast areas in the southwest where 95 percent of illegal immigrants and drugs are entering without a single U.S. official noticing, according to a new Senate report.

"Our borders are unsecure," said the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs report from Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, who pushed through border reforms and is calling for more.

The report is a sweeping review of the committee's actions and findings this year, and it portrays a border in crisis.

A key problem is the freedom illegals still have to pass through despite years of spending to build a wall and install detections.

"Despite spending more than $100 billion over the last decade to fund security measures along the borders, our borders remain unsecure.6 Interdiction rates on the border are below 55 percent, and as low as 30 to 40 percent in some areas. In unfenced areas — approximately two-thirds of the southwest border — interdiction rates may be as low as 5 percent," said the report released Thursday.