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05-05-2008, 12:45 AM
Border Patrol Checks Bus Boarders Bus Riders Hit By ID Checks
...Yet in many parts of the country, on Greyhound buses and Amtrak trains, it's happening more often. Mostly, it's about a nationwide manpower increase in Border Patrol in the post-Sept. 11 era.
..."Now we're over 16,000 agents, and by the end of the year we plan to be over 18,000 agents," Rivera said. "The things that Border Patrol agents couldn't do in Tampa or at the northern border were simply because we didn't have the manpower. Now that we have more agents, we can do those things everywhere, and for people on the northern border, it's something new to them."
...Most are Mexicans. They make up 66 percent of the 372 arrests at the Tampa station since October 2005.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/04/na-border-patrol-checks-bus-boarders-bus-riders-hi/
...Yet in many parts of the country, on Greyhound buses and Amtrak trains, it's happening more often. Mostly, it's about a nationwide manpower increase in Border Patrol in the post-Sept. 11 era.
..."Now we're over 16,000 agents, and by the end of the year we plan to be over 18,000 agents," Rivera said. "The things that Border Patrol agents couldn't do in Tampa or at the northern border were simply because we didn't have the manpower. Now that we have more agents, we can do those things everywhere, and for people on the northern border, it's something new to them."
...Most are Mexicans. They make up 66 percent of the 372 arrests at the Tampa station since October 2005.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/04/na-border-patrol-checks-bus-boarders-bus-riders-hi/