Immigration Detentions Down on the US-Mexico Border
 Reuters
U.S. border police nabbed 30 percent fewer undocumented immigrants crossing from Mexico in the past six months, following ramped up policing on the international line, the U.S. government said on Thursday.
From October 1 through March 31, Border Patrol agents made 418,184 arrests along the southwest border compared to 594,142 apprehensions during the same period a year earlier, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said.
The agency attributed the fall to increased security measures including the construction of additional fencing on the line and the deployment of some 6,000 National Guard troops to assist border police.
Last year, the Border Patrol arrested some 1.1 million people crossing north over the deserts and rivers of the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border, most of them Mexicans and Central Americans seeking work north of the border. |
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