The number of migrant encounters along the southern border exceeded 300,000 in a month for the first time, according to a report citing unofficial CBP sources. The report says December was the busiest month on record for migrant encounters along the Southwest border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, including Border Patrol agents and CBP OFO agents, encountered 302,000 migrants along the Southwest border in December, according to official officials who spoke to Fox News on Tuesday. The number of reported encounters sets a new single-month record for CBP encounters and marks the first time the number has exceeded the 300,000 immigrant threshold.
If the numbers reported by Fox News are accurate, the total number of migrants encountered in the first quarter would be more than 785,000.
The majority of the 302,000 migrant encounters reported in December were migrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border between ports of entry. In the first 28 days of December, that number rose to more than 232,000, Breitbart Texas reported.
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The historic surge in immigration unrest is hitting the Del Rio and Tucson areas especially hard. Tucson District Patrol Chief John Modlin reported that his district apprehended nearly 74,000 immigrants in the first 21 days of December. This is the largest single-month total in the Tucson area since last year during the Clinton administration, when agents encountered 76,245 people in March 2020. By contrast, in fiscal year 2020, the last full year of President Donald Trump's term, Tucson-area agents arrested just 66,076 people. immigration.
John Bernal, deputy chief of patrol for the Del Rio area, reported more than 22,000 immigrant arrests in the week before Christmas, and an additional 1,600 fugitives that are known to have been apprehended.
In the first two months of the 24th fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, Del Rio district officials arrested 81,159 immigrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. This translates to approximately 1,330 immigrants being apprehended per day. The number of migrants per day in December appears to be in the range of 2,500 to 3,000.
On New Year's Day, NGO shelters and Border Patrol processing centers were so full that federal authorities were forced to release buses of migrants directly onto the streets of Eagle Pass, Breitbart's Randy Clark reported. . “Most of the migrants were huddled outside local transit companies trying to get out of small border cities quickly,” Clark wrote.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expected to release official numbers for December in mid-January.
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