The number of illegal imigrant arrests at San Diego's borders rise, as other border sectors drop.
Arrests of illegal immigrants dropped 16 percent in the Border Patrol's Tucson sector in the recently concluded 2008 fiscal year. That's in line with a 17 percent drop all along the Mexican border. But agency figures released Friday show apprehensions plunged by much higher percentages elsewhere. In the Yuma Sector, there was 78 precent drop and in the El Paso nearly 60 percent drop in aprehensions.
The San Diego sector showed a 6.7 percent increase in arrests. The number of arrests went up from about 152,000 to more than 162,000.
Border Patrol spokesman Jason Cilibertie says, "The overall trend is down." Cilibertie attributes that to, "getting the right amount of infrastructure and personnel." Both in the Tucson sector and elsewhere.
