News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Border Patrol to beef up

643 new agents expected in Ariz.

Mike Madden
Republic Washington Bureau
Dec. 7, 2005 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON - The Border Patrol will send 643 new agents to Arizona by next October, an increase of about 22 percent that federal officials say will help slow the tide of illegal immigration.

The increase announced Tuesday would give Arizona more than 3,500 agents, more than a quarter of the Border Patrol's entire force. Last year, more than half of the 1.2 million arrests the Border Patrol made were in Arizona.

In all, there will be 1,700 new agents added and be deployed to California, Texas and New Mexico, bringing the total number to nearly 13,000, Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar said.

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