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The below clips come from this link:
Agency faces struggle as immigrants flee justice
http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=5657&Section=Local
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The U.S. government estimates 7 million people are living in the United States illegally. The number is something of a lowball estimate. Mexico alone calculates that 4.5 million of its citizens live in the United States without proper documentation. Consider also that U.S. Border Patrol captured 1.1 million people sneaking across the border in the past year alone, and as Border Patrol agents are apt to point out, far more get in than are caught.

One security mission, called Operation Tarmac, involved a massive audit of the nation's airports and uncovered 1,000 unauthorized workers. Another, Operation GlowWorm, involved inspecting 56 nuclear plants and 64,000 workers, only four of whom were unauthorized.

Beside the name of every person scheduled to appear at the Harlingen courthouse is a symbol denoting country of origin. It is an endless list of Brazilians and Hondurans, with some El Salvadorans and Chinese mixed in. Mexicans, the most represented nationality in the U.S. immigration court system, made up only 12 percent of Harlingen's caseload in 2003.

But however many people are living in this country illegally, only 400,000 are being directly sought by ICE at any one time, Van Pelt said. Those on the list include murderers, drug smugglers and police-killers, like an Equador native recently captured by ICE agents in New York. Nicknamed Robin Hood by the media, he robbed an armored car in Equador and threw the money out into the streets, killing two police officers in the process. He is believed to have entered the United States in 1993. Five years later he was arrested for armed robbery and sent to a New York prison, where he was discovered by ICE agents through their regular sweeps of the nation's penitentiaries.
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The USofA is the world now isn't it.

Dianne
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