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Weekly Report - 20 June 2006
MEXICO-US: Deterrent effect claimed for troop deployments
As the presence of National Guard units built up steadily along the US border with Mexico, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted a countrywide sweep in search of illegal immigrants. The US government says the deployment of the Guard units has already translated into a decline in the inflow of immigrants. The ICE sweep, for its part, led to 2,100 arrests.
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