Customs lacks agents, sheriffs say

 
By Dawn Marks   
Published: March 13, 2005

Oklahoma sheriffs are frustrated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents often won't pick up illegal immigrants discovered during traffic stops.

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Homeland security issue
According to a transcript of the March 2 U.S. Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing:

According to the 9/11 Commission, more than 500 million people cross U.S. borders at legal entry points annually, about 300 million of them noncitizens.

500,000 or more enter illegally through U.S. borders or stay past the expiration of their documentation.

There are roughly 465,000 illegal immigrants subject to deportation if found. Of those, 40,000 are criminals.

Immigration Studies report
According to a Center for Immigration Studies November 2003 report.

Between 2000 and 2003, 2.3 million legal and illegal immigrant workers arrived in the United States.

About 1.2 million of those arriving between 2000 and 2003 are illegal, based upon Census Bureau data.

At least 90 percent of the 1.5 million arriving from Mexico between 2000 and 2003 are illegal, meaning illegals from that country account for nearly two-thirds of all new illegals.

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