Number of US illegal immigrants from Mexico drops
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SASABE, AZ - JUNE 01: A barbed wire fence marks the border of the United States and Mexico June 1, 2010 near Sasabe, Arizona. 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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