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A nine-month investigation by the Government Accountability Office concludes that the Border Patrol's Tucson sector checkpoints have suffered a 77 percent decline in apprehensions since 2001- the year after Congress imposed a requirement that the inspection stations be moved every seven days.
But the GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, could not determine whether the decrease occurred because of the congressional mandate for temporary checkpoints or because illegal entrants and drug loads are simply being brought in through other areas.
A dispute between the Border Patrol and Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz,. over permanent vs. temporary checkpoints has been ongoing for more than a decade.