A group of 362 migrants ignored the increased dangers of crossing into Eagle Pass, Texas, early Saturday morning.
swept away while authorities on both sides of the border continue search and recovery efforts. With rains forecasted over the coming days, the deadly conditions are likely to worsen.
According to the CBP source, the large group of migrants apprehended on Saturday will likely be released into the United States to pursue asylum claims. Citizens of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua are not amenable to a speedy return to Mexico under the CDC Title 42 Emergency COVID-19 authority, the source says.
Eagle Pass, part of the Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector, has become the hotspot for migrant crossings and currently leads all other border cities in migrant apprehensions. Asexclusively by Breitbart Texas, more than 52,000 migrants crossed the Mexican border into the Texas-based Del Rio Sector in August, according to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This is an increase over the record-setting number of apprehensions set in July.
A source operating under the umbrella of CBP told Breitbart Texas that agents in the Del Rio Sector apprehended nearly. This raised the number of migrants apprehended in the sector from 50,000 in July to more than 52,000 in August. Most of the migrants apprehended in the sector in August chose to cross the Mexican border into Eagle Pass.
The massive number of migrants crossing into the Del Rio Sector daily led to overcrowding in detention facilities as the agency struggles to transport, process, and provide humanitarian care for the detainees. As a result, Border Patrol officials have resorted toWith no changes to border enforcement policies on the horizon, the source believes the migrant crossings into Eagle Pass are likely to continue to increase.is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.
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