Border Patrol now targeting legal immigrants for ‘carry your papers’ law in southern Arizona
- Jerry Glaser, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, File
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A Yuma Sector Border Patrol agent conducts a vehicle inspection at an Interstate 8 checkpoint near Yuma.
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In the past year, federal agents in southwest Arizona issued more than 100 citations to legal immigrants under a 1952 provision enacted to track noncitizens, according to law enforcement records reviewed by AZCIR.

