Chinese migrants nabbed at Arizona border
TUCSON — Several groups of illegal immigrants from China have been arrested in southern Arizona in recent days, part of an increasing trend that U.S. Border Patrol agents said Monday was being fed by smugglers recruiting tourists to Central and South America.
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The Border Patrol has seen a small but significant rise in the number of Chinese caught after entering Arizona from Mexico, agent Colleen Agle said. Between Oct. 1, 2008, and the end of August, agents captured 261 illegal immigrants from China in the patrol’s Tucson sector in southern Arizona.
Just 30 Chinese were caught in the same area during the federal fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2008.
The numbers are still tiny compared with the number of Mexican migrants caught. In the 12 months ending Sept. 3, Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector arrested more than 241,000 suspected illegal immigrants.
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[241,000=more than 20,000 per month in the Tucson Sector!]