1,036 illegal immigrants snared in single group in Texas 

 
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In this March 14, 2019, photo, a group of migrant families walks from the
Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas, near McAllen,
Texas, right before being apprehended by Border Patrol. U.S. border
authorities say they’ve ... 

By  <https://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/stephen-dinan/> Stephen Dinan -
The Washington Times - Thursday, May 30, 2019

The Border Patrol apprehended 1,036 illegal immigrants in one single breach
of the border fence Wednesday, marking a massive escalation in the border
crisis.

The group was so large that agents were still processing them Thursday
afternoon, and had to farm them out to eight different stations, a Customs
and Border Protection official said.

 

“This is ultimately a new line of business for smuggling organizations,” the
official said.

Of the people in the group, 63 were deemed to be children traveling
unaccompanied by a parent, while 934 came as parents or children traveling
together as families.

The migrants were nabbed after they crossed the initial border fence,
gaining a foothold on U.S. land, and were apprehended in the buffer zone
between the first-tier fence and a secondary fence layered further back.

 

The CBP official said migrants are enticed by smuggling organizations who
tell them if they bring children, they can take advantage of lax enforcement
on the U.S. side and get quick release into communities. Once here, rousting
them is rare.

Of family migrants from Central America who arrived in 2017, 98 percent were
still in the U.S. a year later.

 

This week’s group was so large that it took five minutes for the more than
1,000 people to climb through the breach in the first-tier border fence, the
CBP official said. He said most of the migrants climbed underneath the
fence, and it will now need repairs.

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