Border Patrol made about 420,000 arrests last year

Published October 31, 2013 10:33pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Border Patrol says his agents made about 420,000 arrests in the budget year that ended in September, a 15 percent increase from the previous year.

It was the second consecutive year that apprehensions went up since the Border Patrol recorded a near 40-year low in arrests in 2011.

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