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Obama's Border
by CIS
OTM Apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley
The flood of illegal immigrants in South Texas, some of them unaccompanied minors, is largely made up of people from countries Other Than Mexico, or OTMs. To provide context for this unfolding story, this figure shows total apprehensions of non-Mexicans in the Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector:
This post originally appeared on The Center for Immigration Studies. Reprinted with permission.
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CIS (The Center for Immigration Studies), founded in 1985, is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization in Washington, D.C., that examines and critiques the impact of immigration on the United States. It provides a variety of services for policymakers, journalists, and academics, including an e-mail news service, a Backgrounder series and other publications, congressional testimony, and public briefings.
