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Judicial Watch Obtains New Statistics on Human Smuggling in Arizona's 'Tucson Sector' of the Mexican Border
August 26, 2010Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detailing statistics related to human smuggling in Arizona's "Tucson Sector." The Tucson Sector is the Border Patrol's busiest sector on the Southwest Border and covers 262 miles of linear border. Among the data uncovered by Judicial Watch: The total number of persons smuggled and apprehended: FY2008: 81,860, FY2009: 70,328. The total number of smugglers identified: FY2008: 1,437, FY2009: 963. The documents also include data related to the number of "Other than Mexicans" smuggled and apprehended by Border Patrol. According to the documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the number of individuals from the People's Republic of China smuggled across the border and apprehended increased from 15 in FY2008 to 79 in FY2009, nearly a five-fold increase. Full release.
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