Number of US illegal immigrants from Mexico drops
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NOGALES, AZ - JUNE 02: An U.S. Customs and Border Protection bike patrol agent apprehends an undocumented immigrant after he was spotted entering the country illegally June 2, 2010 in Nogales, Arizona. He was captured in the back yard of a home about one block from the border fence. During the 2009 fiscal year 540,865 undocumented immigrants were apprehended entering the United States illegally along the Mexican border, 241,000 of those were captured in the 262 mile stretch of the border known as the Tucson Sector. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)


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