Sentence examples for illegal border crossing from inspiring English sources

For these people, leaving their 'claves constitutes an illegal border crossing.

One story involves thieves stealing dinosaur eggs; another is set in a sound studio, where an actress reads a script about illegal border crossing.

The tick riders exchange information with Border Patrol agents, but they often turn the other way when witnessing an illegal border crossing.

Demographers said those migrants were more likely to be first generation, with less money, thinner support networks in this country, and far less experience than Mexicans have with the increasingly perilous illegal border crossing.

The fervor of conservatives to get tough on illegal border crossing collides with the need to avoid further erosion among Hispanics, who backed Mr. Obama by two to one in 2008.

It has also mounted a public service campaign in Mexico and Central America, using celebrities to do television and radio advertisements to warn would-be migrants of the dangers of trying an illegal border crossing.

He said he was forced to "come through dirt, and mud and under fences" and compared the experience to that of an illegal border crosser.

"Zero tolerance, the policy of prosecuting every illegal border crosser, does not by itself generate a need for expanded or prolonged immigration detention," Randy Capps, director of the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute's research for US programs, told me.

The best way to stop illegal border-crossing is to help Mexico become prosperous.

In fact, thanks to much better policing, as well as a system of workplace checks called E-Verify (and, admittedly, the recession), illegal border-crossing has slowed to historically low levels.

In a busy urban area, he said, "an agent has minutes" to figure out where an illegal border-crosser is going and catch him before he gets away.