Thread: Large group of illegal aliens found in Arizona

Large group of illegal immigrants found in Ariz.

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PHOENIX (AP) — Border agents said Wednesday they arrested an unusually large group of illegal immigrants crossing through the western Arizona desert in what authorities said is proof that increased border technology is working.

Border Patrol surveillance video operators Friday morning spotted a group of more than 100 people walking just north of the Mexico border about 15 miles west of Lukeville, Ariz., Agent Eric Cantu said.

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When agents responded, Cantu said they were able to arrest 22 people but the rest of the group scattered.

A helicopter team found much of the group hiding in thick brush, and agents arrested 106 additional illegal immigrants. The smugglers and other suspected illegal immigrants may have gotten away, Cantu said.

The 128 men who were apprehended have either been returned to Mexico or were jailed because of prior convictions.

The Border Patrol's Tucson sector typically sees such large groups of border crossers no more than once or twice a year, Cantu said. Illegal immigrants typically travel in groups of five to 15, he said, because larger groups are much easier to detect.

"Before in remote areas we didn't have the technology or infrastructure or personnel to actively patrol and monitor the more remote areas," he said. "The larger groups are easier to spot so they're getting rarer and rarer. We're getting to the point where it's almost impossible to cross in groups so large."

Cantu said it didn't make sense why smugglers attempted to take last week's large group into the U.S.

He said several smugglers likely were with the group but either got away or successfully blended in with the immigrants and went undetected as smugglers.

"Normally smugglers are the first ones to run, and they'll abandon the group and leave the group to fend for themselves," Cantu said.

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If you can just get past the Border Patrol, they will put you on a bus and you can go protest in the streets for your "rights." It's like some kind of weird game show. If they can get arrested at the border, why not on the streets of Phoenix or any other American city? Or they any less illegal simply because they made it past the Border Patrol? The whole situation is outrageous.

It's hard to hide 128 people.

Gee...one would think that illegal invaders would be staying away since the illegal invaders and their advocates claim Arizona is so "racist against hispanics." Apparently, not "racist" enough to stop the illegal invaders from taking a shot at the gravey train.

Originally Posted by gofer

If you can just get past the Border Patrol, they will put you on a bus and you can go protest in the streets for your "rights." It's like some kind of weird game show. If they can get arrested at the border, why not on the streets of Phoenix or any other American city? Or they any less illegal simply because they made it past the Border Patrol? The whole situation is outrageous.

That's exactly right gofer. Once you make it past the border you are basically home free to do as you please. Don’t think the illegal invaders don’t know this either! It makes no sense to spend all this money to stop them at the border and then have a hands off policy if they happen to elude capture while crossing.

Heck a group that size could have been tracked from space. BP needs to learn how to herd them into a box canyon or into an area where they are easy to capture. Cowboys had no problem. Maybe we need to bring back the ol horse soldiers and give them plenty of rope to tie them doggies down.

128 ?

How many were returned to Mexico and how many were thrown into the slammer in the US?