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This week Attorney General John Ashcroft visited the US-Mexico border, meeting with Border Patrol agents and outlining his plan to increase the number of Border Patrol search and rescue teams that search for lost migrants.  Viewing exercises conducted by a BORSTAR unit, the Border Search, Trauma and Rescue unit, Ashcroft announced that new units would be in place in El Centro, California and Yuma, Arizona, by the end of July.  Eventually, the Border Patrol hopes to have a BORSTAR unit in each sector.  So far this year, the San Diego BORSTAR unit has rescued nearly 300 people, more than twice the number rescued last year. 

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The INS recently announced that during a two-year crackdown on smuggling in the Detroit area has resulted in the arrests of more than 400 undocumented immigrants and smuggling charges being filed against 50 people.  One of the people indicted is a high-ranking official from the Fujian province in China.  However, few of those indicted are actually in custody.  Officials say most of the people smuggled were from China and Korea.  Conviction of smuggling carries a sentence of up to ten years in prison and a fine of 0,000.

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