Hello,

My name is Jim Stout and I am the Community Relations Agent for Tucson Station of the Border Patrol which has patrol responsibility for the Arivaca, Sasabe, Green Valley, Sahuarita, Three Points, and Tucson Metro Areas. I don’t want to over run the blog here with Illegal Immigration Issues, but we all know that it is a focal issue at times in the Arivaca Community.

Please feel free to contact me at any of my numbers or e-mail below if you have questions and I will also try to reply when I can to the blog here. Forgive me if it takes a while as I am running all over the place doing the job. If you are so inclined then please feel free to give me a call or e-mail as that may be faster in me responding.

My first 5 years in the Patrol were spent patrolling the many areas we are responsible for to include Arivaca. I have always loved working in the Arivaca area because of the great amount of natural beauty there. I grew up in Southeastern Oklahoma in a little peanut farming town, so Tucson is the biggest town in which I have ever lived. Arivaca often reminds me of the many towns I lived in growing up so it is always a good deal for me to be down there. My father was a fire and brimstone backwoods country preacher so we moved all over rural Oklahoma as I grew up. Farming and cattle country were the name of the game in most of the places in which we lived. We once lived in a little town called Utica, Oklahoma which is no bigger that Arivaca, actually Arivaca is probably bigger. I attended the small elementary school there which was about the size of the Sopori School.

While we were there the government came out with farming subsidies to get the farmers to stop producing so much so that produce could be bought cheaper from overseas sources. This was a very rough time as when the farmers took advantage of those funds they then worked less. Asking a farmer not to farm really can depress them greatly so that was a major issue for my dad to deal with in our churches. So you see I understand that what we do in the federal government can have a very large impact on everyone, this I understand and I would hope that in the end Arivaca fairs well.

So that is part of my story, please contact me if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them as candidly as possible.

Jim Stout
Senior Patrol Agent/Chaplain
U.S. Border Patrol
Community Relations Office
2430 S Swan Rd
Tucson, Arizona 85711
Office (520) 514-4700
Mobile (520) 349-4670

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