The CBP reported officially last month that 164,303 illegal migrants were encountered on our southern border in October.
Official figures are not yet in for November, but Bob Price of Breitbart News is reporting that unnamed CBP sources say that number jumped about 10,000, bringing November’s total to nearly 175,000. Such an increase would represent a change in recent trends: numbers historically have gone down between the two months that begin the new fiscal year. Their combined total of about 339,000, if current rates continue, would predict a FY 2022 total of over 2,000,000 encounters.
Price concludes by noting that the Rio Grande Valley Sector and the Del Rio Sector are the two busiest border sectors for migrant encounters. The latter, he notes in a separate article, is currently seeing an especially diverse group of illegals. During Thanksgiving week, for example, Del Rio Sector agents apprehended, in addition to the usual Mexicans, Central Americans, Haitians, and Venezuelans, citizens of Eritrea, Lebanon, Syria, and Tajikistan. Throughout the month of October, migrants of more than 50 nationalities were apprehended in Del Rio, including many from countries labeled “special interest.” What this means for national security, no one in the government is inclined to say.
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