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A media report revealed that Biden administration officials welded border wall gates open near Lukeville, Arizona. The open gates allow migrants to freely walk through the border wall and into the Arizona desert. Border Patrol officials admitted responsibility for a decision to weld open flood gates in sections of border wall near Lukeville, the New York Post reported. The admission reportedly came after the agency attempted to blame other federal agencies for the action that allows thousands of migrants to freely cross into what is now the nation’s busiest border sector. The Tucson Sector led the nation in migrant apprehensions...

BISBEE — After nearly two years of declining numbers, illegal border-crossings took a sudden jump last month in Cochise County, law enforcement officials say. Gustavo Soto, a spokesman for the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, said agents at the Naco, Douglas and Willcox stations apprehended just over 13,000 illegal immigrants last month, a 30 percent increase over March 2006. Prior to the spike, Border Patrol apprehensions in the county had been down 13 percent since the current fiscal year began on Oct. 1. That decline followed a 45 percent drop during the previous year. Sgt. Taron Maddux, spokesman for the Bisbee...

Seven people were injured when the driver of a pickup truck fleeing from Border Patrol agents crashed into a second pickup in Marana. A Border Patrol agent spotted the Chevrolet truck on Arizona 86 near Sandario Road about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, said Agent Sean King, a Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. The agent was suspicious because the truck had no license plate. He tried to pull it over, but the driver sped away, King said. A helicopter followed as the truck turned onto Interstate 19 and then Interstate 10, he said. It left the freeway at Tangerine Road and ran...

Border Patrol bags 153 during raid on Yuma drop house BY BLAKE SCHMIDT, SUN STAFF WRITER Mar 2, 2006, 9:10 pm Border Patrol agents found 134 illegal aliens packed inside this trailer Thursday morning. LOANED PHOTO Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents busted a drop house Thursday morning that was packed with 134 illegal aliens, some of whom said they had been inside the single-wide mobile home for five days, according to a Border Patrol news release. "The conditions inside (the trailer) were standing-room only ... dirty ... (and) with the sheer amount of people, body-heat-generated temperatures that were extremely high,"...

Border Patrol agents were dodging projectiles on Saturday, Aug. 27, as they tried to apprehend a smuggler driving a truck full of undocumented migrants. Nogales agents were patrolling Arivaca Road when a pick-up truck caught their attention. The agents saw people lying in the truck's bed as it proceeded north on Interstate 19, according to information released by the agency. When the agents moved to stop the truck, people in the bed popped up and began throwing wooden pallets at them. The truck veered off the interstate and plunged into the underbrush, taking out 300 feet of fencing. It came...