Like the land rushes of the 1880s and ’90s, the influx into our western states–this time from the south–just keeps going.
Yesterday, Chief Patrol Agent Austin Skero of the Del Rio sector in Texas posted a video taken by a drone of a group of illegal migrants trying unsuccessfully to hide from the drone’s infrared camera. Those migrants, like hundreds of others in only the past two weeks, were eventually tracked down by agents on horseback and taken into custody. Skero says more than 450 illegals have been tracked by drones and apprehended in the previous two weeks alone.
In another story, this one set in Texas’s Rio Grande sector, the CBP has announced that two large groups totaling 276 were apprehended almost simultaneously on April 6. One group numbered 145, included 121 family members and 24 unaccompanied children (UACs). The second group, crossing about 30 miles away, consisted of 99 family members, 28 UACs, and four single adults, for a total of 131.
The Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol says it has intercepted and apprehended 35 such large migrant groups so far this year. It defines “large groups” as 100 or more migrants.
The 276 total migrants in these two cases were transported to Border Patrol facilities for processing, background investigations, and medical screenings. In some cases, migrant families and single adults can be expelled under Title 42 coronavirus protection protocols of the CDC. The extent to which this is occurring is never clear, however, and the most likely assumption is that most are being absorbed into Joe Biden’s America.
For more, see the CBP website.