Rio Grande Valley, Texas – Illegal crossings by migrants in the Rio Grande Valley nearly double in March, with customs and border security numbers showing – as the southern border struggles with an immigration crisis for the worst in 20 years. .
The Rio Grande Valley sector of CBP saw much of the southwest border crossing in February, with 27,913 irresponsible children, families and single adults making their way from Mexico to the area, Data shows.
As of Thursday, those numbers had nearly doubled in March, with more than 10,000 a week, including chief patrol agent Brian Hastings, after CBP recorded more than 34,000 crossings in just 19 days. Wrote on twitter.
“RGV agents were busy on Thursday, apprehending more than 2000 illegal aliens. Thursday’s encounters pushed RKV’s weekly total of 10K apprehensions! The March monthly totals are now over 34K for the #RGV sector, ”Hastings wrote.
At that pace, which is about 1,789 migrants a day, the Valley can see upwards of 55,000 total crossings in March alone, almost double the amount seen in February and over the entire southwest border in September of every month of fiscal 2020. Excluding .
The Rio Grande Valley sector, located 277 miles along the river separating Texas from Mexico and 316 miles along the Gulf of Mexico, has proved to be the busiest crossing point for migrants in 2021 fiscal year.
Between the beginning of the year in October and February, the region has seen more than 25 percent of all illegal crossings along the entire southwestern border from San Diego, California to Brownsville, Texas.
By comparison, Tucson, El Paso and Del Rio have seen 16 percent, 14 percent and 13 percent of total crossings, respectively.
Local law enforcement officials and public officials on the ground in the Rio Grande Valley have described a spirited crisis that is worsening as the days pass.
After President Biden was elected and brought back the immigration policies set by his predecessor, the migrants turned to the border, which lacks manpower as many agents have been sent to processing centers to manage the floods .
While the Rio Grande Valley has always been a busy stretch of the border, the region is seeing record numbers of family units across the line, with more than 42 percent of all parents and children crossing so far this financial year. Accounting for.
It is largely part of a new Mexican law that prohibits the country from accepting migrants traveling with young children, who would typically be expelled under Title 42, a Trump-era regulation that prompted the CBP Allowed to be displaced to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
“They find out that if they have a child 6 years old or younger, they won’t be sent back,” Sister Norma Pimentel, who runs the Catholic Charities Recept Center in McAllen, Tex. City, told The Post.
“Border Patrol cannot return any child under 6 years of age to Mexico and, therefore, is forced to release them in the United States… [that’s] Why are we seeing so many. “
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