Mission, Texas – A border patrol bus that has been empty this week has been vacant as immigrants surrendered near the southern tip of Texas has become admirable this week.
Two speedboat agents have known landing spots for people passing through sandy coastal pockets and illegally entering the US from Mexico with an inner tube, but nothing suspicious was seen .
The once busy river landing near Texas border town was barren for immigrants who had previously crossed there, but the riverbank was littered with clothing and plastic bracelets issued by smugglers.
Illegal crossing arrests have dropped dramatically from the all-time high of 250,000 in December 2023. Perhaps the most surprising thing in the Rio Grande Valley, the epicenter of immigrant arrivals between 2013 and 2022.
The Associated Press journalist accompanied Border Patrol agents on a speedboat that ran 30 miles along the Rio Grande Valley and River on Thursday, not encountering one migrant.
The arrests, which have already reached the lowest level since President Donald Trump took office on January 20th in 2019, have fallen sharply in recent weeks. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks said Friday that they are now around 350 years old per day, starting from over 1,500 people each day in December, the last month of published data.
Rio Grande Valley’s border patrol agents, home to around 1.4 million people, have arrested an average of 325 people a day in December, and about 3,000 on the busiest day of 2021, from about 50 people a day. Masu.
Despite his relatively mildness, Trump declared a national emergency at his border on his first day in office.
In an immigration policy memo, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote when he took office last week: ”
There was an arrest along the Rio Grande on Thursday night and a shooting Wednesday. Border Patrol said agents fired fire on someone suspected of a smuggling incident in the town of Bocachica, causing one suspect to injure.
However, immigrants were not found along the river in former hotspots like Mission, 87,000 cities by Thursday morning, but recently in an open field near the International Bridge where asylum seekers were busy in December, agents. To pick up, or many people waited at other spots along a winding river lined with thick, huge canes.
Mexican authorities’ strengthening enforcement of its own borders and severe US asylum restrictions has contributed to a sharp decline in illegal crossings before Trump took office.
In recent years, the Texas State Guard and state police have become major under Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Loan Star” multi-billion dollar border crackdown. The US Customs and Border Patrol recently agreed to arrest and detain people for illegal crossings, which were the sole territory of the federal government, in the Texas State Guard.
On Thursday, 300 Texas security guards made immigrant arrests alongside border patrol agents, and were represented to expand the pretense of force along the border.
