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, July 26, 2006

Border arrests shift west

Fewer crossers caught in Arizona; migrant patterns may be changing

Mike Madden
Republic Washington Bureau
Jul. 26, 2006 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON - Illegal immigration may be shifting away from Arizona and back to California, after several years of intense focus by federal authorities on the Arizona desert.

From Oct. 1 to July 23, U.S. Border Patrol agents made 20 percent more arrests in California's two sectors compared with the same time last year, while Arizona's two sectors saw a slight drop in arrests.

That could mean smuggling rings are avoiding the new agents, fences, cameras and sensors deployed in Arizona since 2004 by concentrating on other parts of the Southwest.

As they announced the statistics Tuesday morning, Border Patrol officials said arrests are up in California because the agency now catches a higher proportion of attempted border crossers there.

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