The surge in migrants entering the Tucson area returned for the first time last week, with daily apprehension numbers jumping back to levels seen in record-breaking December. Officials in the Tucson area have arrested about 14,000 immigrants in the past week.
Tucson District Patrol Chief John Modlin posted weekly updates on X, indicating large numbers of migrant arrests due to repatriation. Modlin said agents encountered 13,800 migrants in the previous week.
Review of this week…
– 13,800 concerns
– 189 federal criminal cases
– 36 lbs.Marijuana
– 27 people smuggling case
– 16 drug events
– 11 rescues
– 3 major arrests
– 1.5 pounds of fentanyl
– 1 stolen vehicle recovered
– One firearm seized.#honor first pic.twitter.com/8KtEY1LufQ— John R. Modlin (@USBPChiefTCA) February 2, 2024
Numbers in the final week of January jumped back to levels seen in December, when Tucson Sector agents set records dating back to the Clinton administration, according to a graph embedded in the report.
US Border Patrol/Tucson District
The Tucson area remains the Border Patrol’s busiest, with about 80,000 migrants apprehended in December (2,580 per day), Breitbart Texas reported. The previous record for immigrant arrests in the Tucson area was set in March 2000, when agents encountered 76,245 immigrants, according to U.S. Border Patrol Encounter Reports. Approximately 80,000 migrants were reported to have arrived in December, exceeding that record by nearly 5 percent.
The number of migrants in the Tucson area fell to about 51,000 in January, or 1,645 per day, according to unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas. As you can see from the graph above, the decline was temporary as the number of anxiety cases soared to more than 1,900 cases per day last week.
tucson sector agent #HorsePatrol Successfully tracked down and arrested a group of illegal immigrants near Douglas, Arizona. Immigrants often resort to disguise tactics to avoid detection and capture when entering the United States illegally. pic.twitter.com/DiE94MRe6l
— John R. Modlin (@USBPChiefTCA) February 7, 2024
Many migrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry into the Tucson area do not simply surrender to the first Border Patrol agent they arrive at. As Modlin posted above, many immigrant groups use camouflage to try to sneak into the country without being arrested.
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