(EMAILWIRE.COM, September 28, 2009 ) Washington, DC - “The May 2009 report does not reflect the most up-to-date information currently available. In fact, we now have more than 17,000 Border Patrol agents on the Southwest border, up from 16,090 in January, and have no plans to lower that number. We have tripled the number of DHS intelligence analysts working on the Southwest border. We have doubled the number of agents working to identify and apprehend violent criminal aliens and we have ramped up southbound inspections to search for illegal weapons and cash, seizing more than $33 million thus far in 2009—up from $6.2 million at this point in 2008. We have added mobile X-ray machines, updated license plate readers at 52 outbound lanes and, for the first time, have begun inspecting all southbound rail shipments into Mexico.”


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