More women and children are illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to this report. In the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector along the border of Arizona and Mexico, 38,000 women were caught in the first eight months of this fiscal year, compared to 32,000 during the same time period the year before. For children, the figure jumped to 8,000 from 7,000.
In the Yuma sector, which covers the southwestern corner of Arizona, 6,500 women were caught from October through July, compared to 5,362 in the entire previous fiscal year in that sector. Some 4,000 children were caught, compared to 947 in the last fiscal year.
It is assumed that most of the women are trying to reunite with husbands who earlier entered the United States. Tougher border security make it difficult for men who are illegal immigrants to travel back and forth to visit wives and family outside the United States.
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