TITLE

'It's Our Job to Stop That Dream'

AUTHOR(S)
Politzer, Malia
PUB. DATE
April 2007
SOURCE
Reason;Apr2007, Vol. 38 Issue 11, p40
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article focuses on the U.S. Border Patrol. According to commissioner T. J. Bonner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, attacks on Border Patrol agents have doubled between 2004 and 2005 from 374 to 778. It says that there are more than 2,500 agents in Tucson sector in Arizona who are monitoring between the state and Sonora and there is 14-foot-high corrugated steel wall that is 19 miles long.
ACCESSION #
24370295

Tags: UNITED States. Immigration Border Patrol;  BORDER patrol agents;  BONNER, T. J.;  BORDER patrols

 

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