McALLEN, Texas ( Border Report )— Border Patrol encounters with migrants in the Rio Grande Valley Sector in May were down 79 % from the previous year, according to data released Thursday by U. S. Customs and Border Protection.
That is the lowest number of migrant encounters for any Border Patrol division on the west boundary from the previous month.
More than 38, 000 people illegally crossed the Southwest borders in May, according to CBP information, in anticipation of the raising of Title 42 on May 12, 2023, making up the market in South Texas with the highest number of migrants on the country’s borders. Next quarter, there were 7, 865 contacts. That’s down 10.7 % from 8, 811 encounters in April.
According to CBP information, immigrant bridges across the Southwest border reached an all-time deep in May, when contacts in the market decreased by 57 % from 18, 216 in December 2023.
In May, the Tucson Sector in northern Arizona experienced the most fights, followed by the San Diego Sector.
The majority of the refugees encountered in the RGV Sector were solitary child workers, or more than 3, 500. But authorities also found almost 2, 000 unsupervised children on the South Texas boundary, CBP information.
Nevertheless, contacts on the Southwest borders in May dropped 9 % from April to 117, 900 — that’s the next- lowest number since President Joe Biden took business.
“CBP will continue to promote national security and destroy criminal networks, while maximizing consequences for unlawful access, including confinement, trial, and treatment under recently announced executive actions to further protected the border”, said Troy Miller, acting head of CBP.
According to CBP officials, preliminary data for the past two weeks has shown that since the administration announced new asylum restrictions on June 4, which significantly restrict how and when immigrants can apply for asylum, migrant encounters have decreased by 25 %.
Migrants must inform agents that they fear returning to their house countries or that they face different difficult circumstances in order to sit for a reliable fear exam and get considered for U.S. asylum under the executive order issued by President Biden. Then, they face elimination, detention or deportation.
Since Title 42 was repealed, according to CBP, over 775, 000 people have been expelled from the United States.
According to the organization, “migration flows are active, and CBP will continue to slog in people and resources where needed.”
Migrants must program asylum interviews using the CPB One apps and travel to legal U.S. ports of entry in accordance with the new asylum laws.
According to the organization, over 44,500 people were being processed for asylum applications and scheduled CBP One software meetings in May.
Every day, there are 1, 450 appointments across the Southwest border, but immigrant advocates claim there are thousands of them competing virtual for the slots, which results in thousands of people waiting south of the border, many of whom are in dangerous conditions.
Border Report was informed by Andrea Rudnik with Team Brownsville, whose nonprofit organization helps immigrants who are detained legally by the Department of Homeland Security at a Welcome Center in city Brownsville, Texas, that they no longer accept immigrants who cross the border without permission or without using the CBP One apps for appointments.
” We are no longer getting people from Donna and Ursula. So we are only getting CBP One candidates, and even getting folks from the confinement facilities”, Rudnik said.
She claims that immigrants came from both the sprawling temporary processing facility that CBP built in the town of Donna, Texas, which is situated halfway between McAllen and Brownsville, and the CBP Central Processing Center in McAllen, which is commonly known as” Ursula.”
RGV Border Patrol officers have been contacted by Border Report to inquire as to why this change took place.
Sandra Sanchez can be reached at [email protected].
