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Undercover investigators testing how tough it is to cross the borders into the United States had a better than nine-in-10 chance of pulling it off using oral assertions and counterfeit identification, according to a new US Government Accountability Office report. ...
The report was released the same week as a separate unrelated report that indicates tougher border security isn't deterring illegal entries to the United States.
Tougher security is, however, leading many people to cross through ports of entry — concealed in vehicles or openly using phony documents — according to the report by the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
Even though the smuggling fees are more costly, crossing through ports of entry has more than doubled since 1995 as 'the most foolproof way of reducing the physical risk,' said Wayne Cornelius, center director. ...
