Border and
Enforcement News
According to the Washington Times, U.S.
Border Patrol agents apprehended 1.15 million illegal aliens last year trying to
enter the United States between the nation's land ports of entry. Apprehensions
number more than 3,100 a day — a 24 percent increase over the year before. The
agents, part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), also made 8,577 drug
seizures, confiscating 1.4 million pounds of illegal narcotics with an estimated
street value of $1.62 billion, according to the figures released by the
Department of Homeland Security.
The Homeland Security figures also show that CBP inspectors and officers at the
nation's 300 official land, air and sea ports of entry made 47,744 drug seizures
worth an estimated $1 billion; seized more than $138 million in counterfeit
goods, up from $94 million in 2003; and identified and arrested more than 23,000
people with criminal records — including 84 murder suspects, 37 suspected
kidnappers, 151 wanted on charges of sexual assault, 212 robbery suspects and
2,630 others implicated in drug-related charges. Those inspectors and officers
also processed 428 million passengers and pedestrians, including 262 million
aliens, denying entry to more than 643,000 aliens under U.S. law.
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