EXCLUSIVE— The U.S. Border Patrol has already begun to see a dramatic uptick in the number of illegal immigrants apprehended up and down the southern border, a week before the government had anticipated seeing new records set.
As of Tuesday, Border Patrol had in its custody an average of 22,664 people who were intercepted after crossing the border illegally, according to internal data viewed by the Washington Examiner and confirmed by two senior Border Patrol officials Wednesday.A day earlier, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz disclosed that agents had intercepted 22,220 people over the past 72 hours.
For example, in El Paso, Border Patrol has completed two pop-up tent facilities and has a third in the works. "We haven’t even hit the 11th and that’s when it gets bad. If we’re seeing this daily, we’re in trouble. We’re in deep, deep, deep trouble," said Chris Cabrera, a 21-year Border Patrol agent and vice president of the National Border Patrol Council's Rio Grande Valley chapter.
"It's getting really bad here," said a Border Patrol supervisor in El Paso who was not authorized to speak with the media. More than 1,200 miles southeast on the other end of Texas by South Padre Island, Border Patrol agents have apprehended more people than were seen in the historic crossing of Haitian migrants into Del Rio, Texas, in September 2021.
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