SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol is requiring a private volunteer border watch group to remove political messages attached to thousands of small flags placed on the U.S.-Mexican border fence in Cochise County.
About 16,000 flags and five banners were attached to the fence by members of the American Border Patrol group in early July to urge the government to finish building 700 miles of double fencing.
The banners vanished days later.
Border Patrol spokeswoman Colleen Agle tells the Sierra Vista Herald that messages or banners can’t be placed on federal property without prior approval or authorization.
She says that the group didn’t have that permission.
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Information from: Sierra Vista Herald, http://www.svherald.com