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Written by Tiffany Jen   
Thursday, 02 December 2010 07:49

 

 

The Tucson sector of the U.S. Border Patrol has adopted ten new 'wild' additions into one of its units.

The ten mustangs will soon be working the border after being adopted from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro Program. This program gathers wild mustangs from the U.S. Mexico borderlands.

With the overpopulation of wild mustangs in Arizona, the Bureau of Land Management says that they can be used to better serve BP's Horse Patrol unit since the mustangs would be more effective than the unit's already trained horses.The mustangs are use to the environment and does less damage than trucks and ATV's.

Border Patrol says that the horses are currently under training.

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