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Justice Department Adding Prosecutors Near Mexican Border
By Matt Squire
printThe U.S. Justice Department is hiring 64 prosecutors in states near the border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration, smuggling and money laundering. The department will spend $7 million of appropriated funds to add the assistant U.S. attorneys and 35 new contract support positions to five districts on the Mexican border, said Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip in Brownsville, Texas on Friday. The funds will be available "immediately and for the next two years," said Filip. "There will be a diligent effort to try to identify the best folks and to get them on board as soon as possible. But...
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