The agents that Mexico and the United States sent to the border of Coahuila with Texas are insufficient to contain the passage of migrants. This Thursday a group of more than 100 people from Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia arrived in Eagle Pass, Fox News journalist Bill Melugin told the scene.
“There were only two Border Patrol agents overwhelmed right now with the National Guard, and there are more to come,” he explained.
The journalist opined that “these massive groups are a great burden on the resources of the Border Patrol,” which, by moving agents to this region to process undocumented immigrants, “will leave other parts of the border unpatrolled, and that is where the cartel will push drugs and criminals.
The lifeguard of Grupo Beta Martín Solares declared to 14ymedio that among the figures released since the so-called Operative Mirror was implemented in April, an agreement between the governments of Coahuila and Texas to contain the flow of migrants, “16 loads of contraband have been intercepted and 94 have been detained coyotes“.
The Border Patrol reported between last Saturday and this Thursday the arrest of 3,076 irregular migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Guatemala and Honduras. “They cross the Rio Grande at night, they take advantage when there is a change of guard, in the mornings very few pass by, but it is evident that this flow is not being contained,” acknowledged the lifeguard.
BREAKING: Another massive single group of 100+ are crossing illegally into Eagle Pass, TX right now. There are only 2 overwhelmed Border Patrol agents here at the moment with TX National Guard. I asked group where they’re from? Cuba, Venezuela, & Colombia. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/qw3PmWPdIM
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) May 12, 2022
For Solares, it is alarming that “57 unaccompanied children have been found among these groups. It is already a risk to cross with minors, now leaving them alone is a crime.”
The member of the Beta group points out that over the weekend, the Border Patrol intercepted 294 nationals of the Island during their tours in the United States, which take place from Del Río to Eagle Pass. In figures for May 11, there are 316 migrants detained, 102 Cubans”.
Melugin, who is in Eagle Pass, has documented the arrival of 260 migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Venezuela and Nicaragua. This Wednesday reported on their social networks the passage of two groups, one of 110 and the other of 150.
They arrived on foot or in trucks and trailerslike the one on May 9, when the journalist revealed the transfer of people in inhumane conditions and as a product of the smuggling of people that is taking place.
According to the latest preliminary figures from Customs and Border Protection to which had access Washington PostIn April alone, almost 35,000 Cubans were detained on the southern border of the United States. The number was much higher than the 16,550 that were delivered in February and the 32,141 in March.
The newspaper also specified that, from October 1 to March 31, 78,903 Cubans were intercepted by the Border Patrol along the border and of these, only 737 were expelled to Mexico under Title 42, which restricts entry of migrants for public health reasons linked to the covid pandemic.
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