The Clarion Ledger
MISSISSIPPI -- A special Border Patrol task force has apprehended 160 illegal immigrants in the first three days of an operation patrolling I-20 from Vicksburg to Jackson.
Operation Uniforce has targeted the interstate because federal agents believe it is a new corridor for smugglers, who also use I-10 to ferry undocumented workers from the Mexican border to employers on the East Coast.
Border Patrol spokesman Ramon Rivera said many of the apprehended immigrants were headed for North Carolina and Florida.
According to a Border Patrol report on Operation Uniforce, greater scrutiny of I-10 by federal agents has prompted some smugglers to use I-20.
Posted by tyne at January 19, 2008