Success Stories: Progress in Reducing Illegal Immigration

Objective: Continue to Protect our Nation from Dangerous People

Situation		Action
Thousands attempting to cross into U.S. daily along Southwest Border (SWB) between ports of entry U.S.-Mexican Border: tougher enforcement discouraging people from illegally crossing U.S. Border Patrol: dramatic decrease in attempted crossings, evidence in Mexico of the same		Increased presence, infrastructure & technology 1,000 new U.S. Border Patrol agents hired in 2006 6,000 National Guard as armed sentinels on SWB $1 Billion earmarked for fencing, barriers, sensors and surveillance equipment
Result		"The Border Patrol was everywhere"
Sasabe, Mexico: staging area losing business as U.S. Border Patrol cracks down Mexico reports decrease in Sasabe of 2/3 from same time in 2006 Yuma, AZ: apprehensions of undocumented workers down 66%; not crossing elsewhere Enforcement increasing beyond the SWB to the interior of the U.S.		Migrants coming to US, but in hundreds, not thousands
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