YUMA – On Monday evening, Border Patrol agents arrested a group of 11 Iranian citizens who illegally crossed the border into the United States in the Yuma area.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a about 6:00 p.m., agents came across the group of Iranians near San Luis, Arizona, on a bridge near County 21st Street and the Salinity Canal.
After determining that the group had illegally crossed the international border into the U.S., agents took the illegal crossers to Yuma Station for processing. The five females and six males are were all from Iran.
For the last two fiscal years, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents have led the nation in apprehending illegal crossers from Iran. Yuma Sector agents apprehended eight Iranian nationals in FY2020, compared to just 14 from all other border patrol sectors combined.
So far in FY2021, Yuma Sector agents have apprehend 14 nationals from Iran.