Multiple sources tell PickupTrucks.com that the Customs and Border Protection division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seriously considering purchasing at least 10 of the long-travel-suspension off-road pickups for use helping catch suspicious characters illegally entering the country.

This will be a massive disaster. I have sold equipment to the repair shop at the US Border Patrol, and I have dealt with a number of repair shops here in Tucson that also work on the US Border Patrol vehicles. It is well known around here (Tucson, AZ) that La Migra is hell on vehicles.  One shop repalced the wheel studs on 130 Ford Expeditions because the agents were breaking wheels off. Another shop I know has replaced more than 12 frames on Chevy Tahoes because the agents kept breaking them while jumping the trucks off-road.

What will happen when you get a bunch of agents high on adrenaline and chasing some drug runners across the desert? The agent that was breaking frames and ripping differentials out of trucks at 20 mph offroad will now be driving a truck with the suspension to handle 60 mph off-road—– but with the same frame that he was destroying before. These guys are not professional race drivers that have years of experience keeping their equipment going. These are people playing cowboy with a fast truck.

The US Border Patrol has already tried enhanced off road capable trucks and had to write off every single one of them. This will be a total disaster, and someone is going to get hurt.

See the article at Pickuptrucks.com for more and take a look at the videos below.