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EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are reporting more people are trying to enter the United States without proper documents.
The number of people caught with fraudulent, fake or purchased documents has increased 20 percent, from about 23,500 in 2006 to more than 28,000 in 2008, the Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday.
Warren Burr, director of the fraudulent document unit in Virginia, estimates 90 percent of cases involve impostors with legitimate paperwork, such as U.S. passports, green cards and border crossing cards, that belong to someone else.
One woman arrived at the El Paso, Texas, port of entry wearing a surgical mask and holding a valid Mexican border-crossing card that wasn't hers.
El Paso director William Molaski says an increase in the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents and the completion of longer stretches of border fences have prompted more illegal immigrants to try to sneak through.
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