EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A top U.S. border official says the only area with more than 100,000 annual apprehensions of illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico will soon be under that figure because the flow of immigrants is declining.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin said Tuesday the Tucson Border Patrol sector in Arizona dropped from 212,000 detained illegal border crossers in 2010 to about 120,000 so far this year. Bersin expects the total to fall below 100,000 in 2012.
Speaking at a border security conference in El Paso, Bersin credited the decline to the 6,000 agents now there and increased use of aircraft and drones in the Tucson sector.
Bersin says the U.S. recession and a growing Mexican economy have contributed to the decline in the number of illegal immigrants.
samkat posted at 7:39 pm on Tue, Aug 16, 2011.
The Republic did allow comments on a similar article and as usual referred to them as immigrants.
AZ_Resident posted at 7:20 am on Thu, Aug 18, 2011.
Of course its declining - now that the US economy has been impacted by the millions of illegals here for their free ' entitlements' health care, welfare and jobs, the've probably found some other tunnel or way to get through.
Juggernaut6000 posted at 1:59 am on Mon, Aug 22, 2011.
Good job all of you bleeding heart liberals, you have won and all of your illegal buddies can run across the border with little resistance.
If I had it my way each and every illegal would be sterilized and tattoed with 'illegal' on their forehead and be thrown back into filthy mexico.
I hope all of you democrats are happy that you have destroyed this country and must live with your decisions.