More than 408,000 illegal immigrants were detained on the Mexican border last year – up from about 331,000 – but the number of Mexicans trying to get into the U.S. has gone down.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the 24 percent rise was due to the increasing number of Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
The DHS report comes only three weeks before the presidential election, with the immigration issue looming large.
