CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan announced 750 officers will be reassigned to the southern border.
that the migrants are being given food, water, and medical evaluations at a tent under the bridge as they wait to be taken elsewhere for processing.
McAleenan appeared desperate to sound an alarm about the number of migrants at the southern border — and a changing dynamic that’s it’s mostly families crossing, as opposed to the single adults that crossed in past years. This month, agents are projected to apprehend more than 50,000 families across the border — the highest total on record since the US began tracking the statistic in 2012.
The 750 reassigned officers will help agents at the southern border with these issues. But that, he noted, would lead to increased wait times and traffic issues at ports. In February, more than 76,000 migrants crossed the US–Mexico border without authorization, more than 36,000 of which were families, a trend CBP officials have said has grown substantially in recent months and has stretched the system’s capacity. That number includes people who entered the US through an official border crossing without proper documentation and those who entered in between ports of entry.
“Every day about 150 agents spend shifts in hospitals or medical facility with illegal aliens receiving treatment,” Luck said.
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