Border Patrol: 60,000 People Tried Crossing Illegally into US

Posted: Jun 19, 2012 4:19 PM
Updated: Jun 19, 2012 4:30 PM

WESLACO - New numbers from the U.S. Border Patrol show 60,000 undocumented immigrants crossed into the country illegally in the last six months. That's about the population of Pharr.

CHANNEL 5 NEWS learned thousands of these illegal immigrants were classified as OTM, or other than Mexican. The top five countries they came from are Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, India and China.

Border Patrol agents said Mexicans still make up for the majority of the undocumented people agents detain and deport.

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