U. S. Border Patrol agents have ramped up immigration enforcement in the Coachella Valley.

Since January of this year, agents from the El Centro Sector assigned to the Indio Station have arrested hundreds of illegal aliens in the Coachella Valley. According to the Border Patrol, two of the detained had prior criminal convictions for murder, nine for sex offenses, 49 for driving under the influence, 23 for inflicting corporal injury or assault, 19 for drug charges and 14 for grand theft and burglary. An additional 250 individuals unlawfully in the United States and possessing commercial driver's licenses were apprehended.