Border Patrol in Rio Grande Valley has apprehended illegals from 44 countries, on track for 60, not like before when it was the same people over and over again
"So far, here in south Texas, we’ve apprehended folks from 44 different
countries. These are from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Yemen, Iraq,
Pakistan, Iran, you name it.” Although most illegal aliens hail from the Central American countries
of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, Ortiz estimates that by the
end of the year, Border Patrol will have apprehended people from 60
different countries. ... Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, said
that although Border Patrol apprehended more than 1 million people in
the early- to mid-2000s, it was often the same people, from Mexico, and
it was easy to return them. ... “But now, that’s not what we’re dealing with. We’re on pace to have
about 900,000 arrests, but that’s 900,000 people that we’re dealing
with. Whereas back in the early-2000s, we were dealing with somewhere
around 500,000, 600,000 people. We were just arresting the same person
over and over and over again. So we’re dealing with something that’s
just never been dealt with before. And if we don’t get the support from
Congress, we’re going to fail. Period.”
