There have been a limited number of illegal crossings of the border.

Just where did you conjure the figure of 8,000 illegal crossings a day?

Arizona adopted its law last year out of frustration that Washington had not done enough to control illegal crossings.

There were, in the past, isolated cases of illegal crossings by Iranians into Kuwait, but nothing approaching the current scale.

The end of the Bracero Program would lead to greater illegal crossings.

But will they achieve their goal in discouraging more illegal crossings?

This year the number killed in traffic accidents during illegal crossings is about 50.

In Arizona, arrests for illegal crossings now run at more than half a million a year.

There are about 60 million legal crossings a year, while illegal crossings are down but far from eliminated.

But now there is little to prevent illegal crossings.