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.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Mesa airport ranks as the nation's busiest air deportation hub

Mar 4, 12:22 PM EST

Pat Shannahan/The Arizona Republic

PHOENIX (AP) -- An airport in Mesa is the busiest air deportation hub in the nation and has seen its number of deportations skyrocket in the past three years.

Deportations at Williams Gateway Airport in Mesa have risen sharply from about 6,150 in fiscal year 2003 to about 15,914 last year.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say that is because Arizona is the country's main crossing point for illegal immigrants and has two large detention centers in Florence and Eloy.

Bush policy turns Mesa airport into deportation hub


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