CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN CLEMENTE : 920 Arrests Made in Border Sweep
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
U.S. Border Patrol agents nabbed 920 suspected illegal aliens in a weekend raid. Immigration officials said they also arrested three suspected alien smugglers during the five-hour sweep at the San Clemente border checkpoint. “The action shows the magnitude of the influx of illegal aliens in the U.S.,” said Douglas Becktel, a supervising Border Patrol agent.
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