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Border Patrol Stops Flying Illegals back to Mexico for Free
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More than 125,000 people have taken flights since 2004, costing taxpayers nearly $100-million. The program only operated during the summer, and out of Arizona, as a humanitarian effort because of the large number of illegal immigrants who died as they tried to cross the desert.
Border patrol officials are discontinuing the flights because they say border-crossing arrests are at a 40-year-low.
