Illegal immigrant smuggling
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October 21, 2009 9:29 PM

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials will soon try a new way to disrupt smugglers bringing in illegal immigrants in Arizona: they’ll bus them out in Texas.

According to a news release from Marfa Sector border patrol spokesman Bill Brooks, they are launching the Alien Transfer and Exit Program on Nov. 1. The way it works, they will take two busloads of illegal immigrants from Tucson, Ariz., to the port of entry in Presidio before returning them to Mexico.

[b]The release said this program “is specifically designed to break the smuggling cycle between the aliens and organized smugglers.â€