Border Patrol agents are seeing a sudden spike in the number of immigrants attempting to enter the country illegally between Tucson, Arizona, and the Gulf Shore of Texas, even after the number of encounters reached a new all-time high in August.
The surge began in the last few weeks but ticked up suddenly over the last few days. One remote border town, Eagle Pass, Texas, reported 4,000 people crossing the Rio Grande in a day. Across the entire southern border, agents are apprehending more than 8,000 people daily of the 10,000 total encounters that include ports of entry.
However, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson pointed to older comments from the Department of Homeland Security that stated the"increase in migration already experienced by the United States is consistent with larger global trends: economic and political instability around the world is fueling the highest levels of mass migration since World War II.”For years, immigrants traversing north through Mexico have hitched free rides on freight trains headed to the U.S.-Mexico border.
But train rides north came to a halt on Tuesday when Mexico's largest railroad, Ferromex, said it had suspended service of 60 freight trains because of how many immigrants across the country had flocked to them as free transportation.A second senior Border Patrol official said family members who made it to the U.S."are relaying how easy the process is if you cross illegally."
"All first-time single adults are getting notices to appear in court, including Mexican family units," the third person said.One reoccurring complaint from immigrants in custody is the difficulty they have had trying to schedule appointments with U.S. customs officials at ports of entry to avoid crossing illegally.
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