Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 40,000 migrants along the southwest border during the first ten days of August. The Tucson and Rio Grande Valley Sectors reported more than 10,000 each.
Unofficial reports obtained from law enforcement by Breitbart Texas reveal that during the first ten days of August, Border Patrol agents apprehended 39,324 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry.
🚨Breaking News: Border Patrol Agents from #RGC Station encountered over 1.1K migrants in a 24 hour period near La Grulla, TX. Amazing work of addressing medical emergencies, transportation, and field intake. Way to go RGC! 💚🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/X4OXSFdLYM
— Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez (@USBPChiefRGV) August 4, 2023
This uptick in illegal activity is indicative of a larger problem that must be addressed if we are to maintain secure borders. Republicans continue to push for stronger border security measures and ensure that our laws are enforced.
This is an average of 5,708 apprehensions per day. The Tucson and Rio Grande Valley Sectors reported 10,867 and 10,465 migrant apprehensions, respectively.
The five Texas-based border sectors accounted for 23,119 of the 39,324 migrant apprehensions. Following a sharp drop in June, migrant apprehensions reportedly spiked again in July with the arrest of more than 130,000 migrants, the Washington Post reported.
If the current apprehension rate in August continues, U.S. Customs and Border Protection could report the apprehension of nearly 177,000 migrants in August.
Breitbart reported: The United States superpower cannot stop the global flow of poor economic migrants into the United States, says a top aide to border chief Alejandro Mayorkas.
But the U.S. can reduce illegal crossings by simply inviting the migrants to legally cross the border, regardless of the predictable economic and civic damage to Americans, according to Blas Nunez-Neto, the assistant secretary for policy at Mayorkas’s Department of Homeland Security.
Nunez-Neto told TheHill.com:
The bottom line is: When you look at what people go through to come here — these people that we’re encountering on the border now that have crossed the Darién jungle [in Panama] — if you go down and look at the Darién, you can’t believe the number of people that are transiting that area every day … It’s families with small kids. So if [they]’re willing to do that, there’s very little we can do at the border that’s going to stop people from coming if we don’t also give them the hope that there’s a legal way to come here.
Nunez-Neto’s agency was given $97 billion in taxpayer funds to stop illegal migration in 2022.
A whopping 4.9 million illegal immigrants have crossed our border since Biden has taken office, a report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found. https://t.co/Oouk9xkrs7
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 20, 2022
“The guy seems to have rejected the concept of American sovereignty by arguing that the American people have no choice but to allow millions of people to enter our country whenever they wish,” responded Jon Feere, a former top manager at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
