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, April 11, 2007

Border Patrol aims to continue positive trends

BY JEFFREY GAUTREAUX, SUN STAFF WRITER

April 10, 2007 - 11:31PM

Illegal alien apprehensions dropped 67 percent after President George W. Bush's first visit to Yuma in May 2006. After the president's second visit, the Border Patrol's Yuma sector hopes to keep that trend going.

Senior Patrol Agent Maranda Weber said the sector wants to keep the numbers low, but it is difficult to make predictions. "We just keep going out there and doing our job."

The decrease in apprehensions and illegal entries was the result of increased technology, tactical infrastructure and manpower. Operation Jump Start, which has put National Guard members on the border for surveillance and other tasks, has also played a role in improved border control.

The improved border security has led to increased violence against agents, a result the Border Patrol expected.

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