With no other options to facilitate immigration proceedings while in custody, CBP had to release families and provide notices to appear before an immigration court at a future date. government’s inability to remove these populations were due to several factors including a recent court-imposed, 20-day limit on the government’s authority maintain custody of children. In 2019, agents apprehended mostly families and unaccompanied children from Central America, a demographic that pushed stations over capacity do to requirements for children in custody. government built Border Patrol stations on the Southwest border for agents to quickly process and remove adult males from Mexico, which was the predominant demographic apprehended by agents. This group, well in excess of 100 family units, turned themselves into theīorder Patrol, after crossing the border illegally and walking through the town Large group after large group of family units in Los Ebanos, Texas, June 15. It was pretty chaotic at times.” Border Patrol agents assigned to the McAllen, Texas, station encounter “Our role was as a holding facility until they could be transported elsewhere for processing. At the height of apprehensions in May, the entire Rio Grande Valley Sector averaged more than 1,600 each day, compared to just 560 a day in May 2018. One of his assignments was to help process illegal aliens after they were apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, the area with the highest number of apprehensions in FY 2019. “McAllen was hit really, really hard,” said Ben Stern, a supervisory Border Patrol agent from Maine, one of hundreds of agents and officers deployed to address the crisis. government’s fiscal year), CBP law enforcement personnel apprehended or have deemed inadmissible nearly a million illegal immigrants crossing the southwest border, the most in nearly 15 years.ĬBP had to address the humanitarian crisis while enforcing hundreds of laws and regulations, keeping Americans safe by intercepting dangerous drugs and criminals crossing the border, and facilitating legitimate trade and travel at 328 U.S. Between October 2018 and September (the U.S.

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