Ten-Fold Spike in Chinese Border-Crossers

(Nogales, Arizona) Based upon data from the Tucson sector of the U.S.-Mexico border, the number of Chinese nationals crossing into Arizona has increased ten-fold this year.

The Border Patrol in the Tucson sector has arrested at least 261 Chinese border-crossers this year, compared with an annual average of 32 during the last four years, officials said.

"They are the main [non-Mexicans] we catch," said field operations supervisor Juventino Pacheco of the patrol's international liaison unit in Nogales. "Lately we have been catching more Chinese than Central Americans."

Heh.