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Posted on 10/02/2003 5:34:53 PM PDT by SandRat
COCHISE COUNTY -- Arizona is still the hot spot when it comes to the number of illegal immigrants apprehended.
More than a third of those taken into custody along the nation's nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico occur in the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, which includes Cochise County, according to figures from federal officials.
Within the Tucson Sector, Cochise County accounts for more than half of the apprehensions from Oct. 1, 2002, through Tuesday, based on figures provided by sector spokesman Andy Adame.
Of the 932,000 illegal immigrants apprehended along the entire southern border for the federal fiscal year that ended Tuesday, 345,543 were taken into custody in the Tucson Sector, of which 175,223 happened in Cochise County, according to Adame's figures.
Gloria Chavez, a spokeswoman for the Border Patrol headquarters in Washington, D.C., said 932,000 apprehensions is a preliminary figure.
While there has been a 24 percent decline of apprehensions along the entire border from Oct. 1, 2001, to Sept. 30, 2002, and Oct. 1, 2002, to Tuesday, there has been an increase in the number of illegal immigrants taken into custody in the Tucson Sector and Cochise County from the previous federal budget year.
In the previous fiscal year, there was 955,310 apprehensions along the entire 2,000-mile border. This year's preliminary figures show a 24 percent decline.
On the other hand, the previous year's figures for the Tucson Sector show a 4 percent increase, rising from 333,646 to 345,543.
As for Cochise County figures, it was nearly an 11 percent increase, rising from 156,948 to 175,223.
The Tucson Sector's portion of the border with Mexico is about 280 miles. Of that amount, nearly 90 miles are in Cochise County.
Looking at this year's apprehension numbers, nearly 19 percent, or slightly less than one in five illegal immigrants, were rounded up by the U.S. Border Patrol in Cochise County.
Although the Douglas and Willcox stations in the county show a decrease from figures of Oct. 1, 2001, through Sept. 30, 2002, agents at the Naco Station increased their number of apprehensions by 53 percent, Adame said. The Douglas station reported a 9 percent decrease, and the Willcox station reported a 51 percent decrease.
Figures provided by Chavez and Adame also showed an increase in the number of deaths of illegal immigrants once they crossed the border, but a decline in the number of rescues from the previous fiscal year to this fiscal year.
When it comes to the number of deaths in the Tucson Sector, there seems to be a difference between the official number being reported for this year and what has been said by the Mexican Consulates in the Tucson Sector and humanitarian groups in published reports. The agency is reporting 139 deaths in the Tucson, while the other sources report that the number could be as high as 151.
According to the agency's Tucson Sector, 30 illegal immigrant deaths were reported in Cochise County during the recently completed budget year.
The Cochise County Medical Examiner's Office reports that it handled more than 40 cases involving dead illegal immigrants.
As for the U.S. Border Patrol's pilot program of transporting some illegal immigrants apprehended in the Tucson Sector to Texas, nearly 6,000 people were flown out of Tucson International Airport on about 40 charter flights that cost $28,000 each. The total cost of the program, which went from Sept. 8 to Tuesday, was at least $1.12 million.
There were protests from Texas communities -- El Paso, Del Rio, Laredo and McAllen -- as well as some Texas members of Congress and Mexican government officials, including that nation's president, about the program.
U.S. Border Patrol officials have said they will be analyzing the results of the pilot program to see if it should be re-established again.
We need to close the borders tight!
NOW!
Then talk about a "guest worker" program.
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Arizona's worker's comp laws are not as liberal and it's prisons would be consdered out of the dark ages compared to California's TV for two approach to incarceration.
So, you've seen Sheriff Joe Aripio's tent city Maricopa County Gray Bar motel visible from I-10 headed to LA and heard of his menu of green baloney!
These statistics are from the Yuma paper. I think the critical question is: how many did they not catch?
These statistics are from the Yuma paper. I think the critical question is: how many did they not catch?
Talk to the actual agents and not the "BRASS" and they'll tell you that they manage to nab less than 10%.
But if we complain about it we're labeled as being insensitive racist bigots.
Borders-Language-Culture!
Yup
I'm also familiar with what California calls a Minimum Security Correctional Facility.
Every heard of PIA. That's California speak for pig farms, dairy farms, furniture factories and telemarketing services that are run out of these facilities in direct competition to private industry.
Hell, in California the inmates answer the phones when you call an administrator inside a faciltiy. The whole thing blew up in the face of the CDC when the inmates began forgetting to indentify themselves as inmates and started negotiating internal prison contracts with outside vendors and discussing prison security proceedures with correctional personell from other facilites.
JackelopeBreeder, formally of FR, just got word to me that the Herald or whoever gave the Herald the percentage goofed. It should be 2.4%. When I posted the story originally I didn't QA the authoring of the Herald.
The correction tells a different story than the one given.
BTTT
Illegal immigration figures down for nation
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