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.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Arrests of illegal immigrants at border down more than 11 percent

Dec 28, 3:04 AM EST

PHOENIX (AP) -- Apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the Arizona border decreased more than 11 percent this year compared with 2005, officials said.

The Border Patrol says apprehensions are down primarily because the National Guard and scores of additional agents have made it harder to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

President Bush sent about 6,000 Guard members to help secure the porous southern border six months ago.

Arizona received the bulk of the Guard troops after tighter border security in Texas and California turned the state into the most popular corridor for illegal immigration.

More than a quarter of the 5,700 Guard members currently deployed on the southern border are assigned to Arizona.

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