This week: Border Patrol
Mexico has a 1,200-mile border with the United States. Every year nearly two-and-a-half million people illegally enter the United States in search of a better way of life, mostly from Mexico. The US Border Patrol uses aircraft, seismic detectors, radar and infrared to try to stem the flow. It is estimated that between six and eight million Mexican immigrants are living illegally in the USA.
In this report, made for Swedish Television, CECILIA BÄCKLANDER, LEIF HEDMAN and JAN SANDQUIST look at the work of the US Border Patrol who, last year, caught over 700,000 illegal immigrants.
Editor ADAM CLAPHAM