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The U.S. Border Patrol will add 1,700 new agents along the Mexican border this fiscal year, with Arizona getting more than 640 of them, the agency said Tuesday.

Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar said the number of agents in the Tucson Sector will increase to 2,779 from 2,339 by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

The Yuma Sector's total agents will rise to 757, up from 554.

For several years, Arizonahas been the nation's busiest area in terms of the number of illegal entrants crossing the border.

Aguilar said the 1,700 new agents will boost the agency's total from 11,268 as of two months ago to almost 13,000, some of whom will still be in training.

In addition, the Tucson Sector will receive $35 million for added infrastructure, including vehicle barriers in the Ajo and Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation areas; improving roadways there and around Naco and Douglas; added stadium-type lighting on either side of Naco and Douglas; and additional heavy steel fencing in the Douglas and Naco areas.

The money for the new hirings comes from allocations in the fiscal 2006 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security and from the fiscal 2005 Iraq war supplemental appropriations bill, Aguilar said.