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Border Patrol gets first new strategy in 8 years

The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its first national strategy in eight years, a period in which the number of agents more than doubled and apprehensions of people entering illegally from Mexico dropped to a 40-year low. The new approach — outlined in a 32-page document that took more than two years to develop — uses buzzwords like "risk-based" and "intelligence-driven" to describe a more nuanced, targeted response to constantly evolving threats. The Border Patrol previously relied on a strategy that blanketed heavily trafficked corridors for illegal immigrants with agents, pushing migrants to more remote areas where they would presumably be easier to capture and discouraged from trying again. "The jury, for me at least, is out on whether that's a solid strategy," Chief Mike Fisher told The Associated Press. The new strategy draws on intelligence to identify repeat crossers and to try to determine why they keep coming, said Fisher,...