As the surge of migrants continues across the southern border, one man from Turkey said he came to the U.S. in search of economic opportunity and to flee a 'dictator.'
Around three dozen people, all but four of them men, stood in a line in an empty hiking trail parking lot. They held passports open for inspection. Clean duffle bags and backpacks sat at their feet, tagged with identical white labels from the Border Patrol agents processing them. All appeared to be in their 20s or 30s, a demographic seen often in videos from the southern border in recent months.
As the group patiently waited within eyesight of Interstate 8, a man pulled into the cracked-dirt parking lot on a ramshackle motorcycle, flames and a jagged smile painted on its sidecar. His outfit looked curated from an Area 51 thrift store — sunglasses shaped like Martian eyes perched atop the bridge of his nose, and his shirt featured an alien relaxing on a beach. His gray beard pointed to the right, windswept as he raised his phone to photograph the scene.
Ugur and the other migrants were among the approximately 1,000 people encountered by border patrol agents on any given day in the San Diego sector alone. Agents there encountered more than 230,000 during fiscal year 2023, a record 2024 is on track to shatter. 'This is a massive problem,' Marine Corps veteran, CEO and self-described 'ringleader' of Border Vets Kate Monroe said. 'Infrastructurally, economically we cannot support this for generations.
While many migrants face life-threatening perils on their journey, Christenson said the coordination and ease of some people's travel surprised him when he started visiting the border. 'It's not this arduous trek they make across Mexico, up and down valleys and rivers and everything. It's very much just through the cartels,' he said. 'They come with their roller bags as if they're going through TSA.
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