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  Border agents say crackdown on U.S. employers is needed
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Last EditedServo  May 28, 2006 04:35pm
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News DateSunday, May 28, 2006 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe agents who patrol the porous U.S.-Mexico border welcome proposals to clamp down on illegal immigration, but they also want a crackdown on employers who hire undocumented immigrants.

In and around the Arizona border with Mexico, many of the 2,400 men and women of the Border Patrol support President George W. Bush's call to raise the total number of agents protecting the southern border by 6,000 to 18,000. They also support Thursday's Senate action to extend barriers erected along the border with Mexico and to deploy more vehicles and technologies to frustrate illegal entry.

But they part ways with Bush on his guest worker program, a centerpiece of the Senate's immigration legislation. And they believe that without cracking down on employers, higher-paying U.S. jobs will remain a magnet for down-and-out people in Mexico.
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