BOP 2005 Still Photo Winners > Domestic News Picture Story

1st
Mary Calvert, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
2nd
Patrick Schneider, The Charlotte Observer
3rd
nuri vallbona, MIAMI HERALD
HM1
David McNew, Getty Images
1st Place
Mary Calvert, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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LOSING THE FIGHT The estimated one million illegal aliens that pass over the border of the United States each year easily blend into the melting pot that is a US city. It is the task of 2300 federal agents of the US Department of Homeland Security to detect, detain and deport the millions of illegal foreign nationals in the US. Once they are found, usually after committing a crime, federal agents, instead of incarcerating them, give them a "free pass", interrogate them and then put them on a plane bound for their native countries, knowing full well that they will try again to cross the border. Armed US Marshalls guard the unmarked US government plane that drops off aliens in San Diego, California, to be deported to Mexico before picking up more aliens to be taken to Arizona, detained, then deported south of the US border.

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