The Border Patrol says non-Mexican illegal immigrants are accounting for a slender majority of the agency’s apprehensions in Texas.
From October 2011 to July 31, agents apprehended more than 40,000 non-Mexican migrants, compared to about 39,000 individuals from Mexico. Most of the 40,000 were from Central America.
The number of non-Mexican migrants apprehended during the same 10-month period a year earlier was about 16,000.