Number of US illegal immigrants from Mexico drops
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NOGALES, AZ - JUNE 02: Undocumented immigrants are detained after entering the country illegally June 2, 2010 in Nogales, Arizona. They were captured by bike patrol Border Patrol agents 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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