An illegal immigrant has bitten a Border Patrol agent in the face, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said on Friday.
An illegal immigrant coming across the U.S. border bit a Border Patrol agent in the face while being taken into custody, Customs and Border Protection confirmed to Fox News on Friday. The agency said that on Thursday an agent encountered a group of illegal immigrants who had crossed the border near Sunland Park, New Mexico. While taking them into custody, one agent 'was physically assaulted and bitten' by one of the illegal immigrants.
later confirmed to Fox News that the agent had been bitten in the face by the illegal immigrant, and that three of the four migrants in the group had crossed back into Mexico. The agency says that Mexican officials were nearby and grabbed the group as they came across, taking them to the edge of the border for the Border Patrol agents to identify. Customs and Border Protection recently warned in a press release that it has seen 'a significant risk in attacks on Border Patrol Agents recently.
Republicans have accused the administration of causing the historic border crisis in the first place, arguing that the ending of Trump-era policies and expansion of 'catch and release' encouraged millions of migrants to travel to the border and be released into the interior. Get the latest updates on the ongoing border crisis from the Fox News Digital immigration hub.
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