butterbean
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 Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:08 pm Post subject: New Threats Arise For Border Agents |
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Video: New Threats Arise For Border Agents
SAN DIEGO -- It's not just the number of people coming into the U.S. that is a concern for the Department of Homeland Security, but it's from which countries they are coming.
They cross in the cover of darkness and in broad daylight.
Border Patrol agents in San Diego stop nearly 400 illegal border crossers each day.
"We have five or six a day; that's just on a day shift," said Border Patrol agent Tim Feige.
There is no telling how many they don’t stop.
"We never know what they're here for or what their intentions are," added Feige.
10News joined agents on patrol and saw firsthand what they face. In one incident, two men and one woman tried to sneak by right in front of agents. They first hid and then surrendered. The group turned out to be Mexican citizens with no criminal records, and they were processed and sent back to Mexico.
Because 85 percent of those apprehended by agents are from Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security classifies the others detained as "OTMs," or Other Than Mexican.
"They try to pass themselves off as being from Mexico," said Border Patrol agent Allen Gustafson.
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