Illegal immigrants are using fake passports to pose as unaccompanied minors to improve their chances of being admitted to the United States, according to Internal Customs and Border Protection. caveat obtained by fox news on sunday.
An adult Guinean national reportedly presents a fake and stolen passport to a CBP officer in Tucson, Arizona. The fake document claims that the individual is a minor.
CBP officers have been notified to monitor Guinean passports issued in Conakry after June 2023. The documents were “likely to be forged or tampered with,” according to a notice obtained by Fox News.
The notice warns that the Guinean government “may be advising people obtaining new passports to change their age to improve their chances of entering the United States as a minor.” There is.
According to a Border Guard report, one migrant said that an “illegal group” had “stolen blank passport books from the ministry in Conakry and was selling and issuing passports without going through the proper procedures,” the news agency said. Said.
Tucson district officials reported that approximately 170 Guineans entered the United States illegally on Saturday. Border guards have noted an influx of adult males attempting to enter the country from Guinea.
“Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents and Nogales Port of Entry Tactical Enforcement Unit (TEU) personnel recently encountered a large influx of falsified Guinean passports issued in the city of Conakry, Guinea,” the alert obtained by FOX News said. It is stated that.
“All of the tampered passports encountered in the Tucson area were authentic, with the exception of an obvious flaw in the biographical data page after the subject's data was printed, so the entire passport had the correct security.” “It was fully functional,” the notice continued. “Altered Guinean passports may lack this security feature or appear inaccurate.”
Border Patrol said information about the fake passports was obtained through interviews with migrants.
NewsNation Correspondent Reported by Ali Bradley“Sources confirm that more than 4,600 migrants from Guinea crossed into the United States in December, with the majority coming through the Tucson area of Arizona.”
Mr Bradley said encounters between Guinean nationals would be “relatively low until the summer”. There were about 300 encounters in July. That number then jumped to more than 800 in August, 1,700 in September, 3,000 in October, 4,000 in November and 4,600 in December, she reported.
A total of 64,638 migrants were encountered in the Tucson area in November, a 176% increase from the same month last year, according to CBP. report. In the first two months of fiscal year 2024, October and November, the department experienced 119,864 encounters, already on track to surpass the total number of encounters in fiscal year 2023 (373,625).
Tucson District Patrol Chief John Modlin reported on his “week in review.'' X On Friday, 16,800 people were arrested, including 104 federal criminal cases, 22 rescues, and three “major arrests.”
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