Border Patrol to beef up
The Border Patrol will send 643 new agents to Arizona by next October, an increase of about 22 percent that federal officials say will help slow the tide of illegal immigration. The increase announced Tuesday would give Arizona more than 3,500 agents, more than a quarter of the Border Patrol’s entire force. Last year, more than half of the 1.2 million arrests the Border Patrol made were in Arizona. Full Story