The El Paso Sector of U.S. Border Patrol has seen about 1,000 migrant encounters per day.
Hundreds of migrants waiting to turn themselves in to federal border agents in El Paso on Thursday breached the temporary fencing on the northern banks of the Rio Grande, briefly overwhelming Texas National Guard soldiers.
“When they come — and they’re now being extorted, they’re being beaten up on the Mexican side — they have that kind of urgency to make an entry. And that’s what’s happening right now,” she said. Morales deferred questions about the breach to the Texas National Guard. The Texas Newsroom’s requests for comment to the Texas Military Department were not immediately returned.
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