Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, and Texas DPS troopers apprehended more than 2,000 migrants by early afternoon on Thursday.
Sectors in the “yellow range,” more than 50 percent of capacity, include the Tucson Sector , Rio Grande Valley Sector , San Diego Sector , Yuma Sector and El Centro Sector . The only southwest border sector in the green is the Big Bend Sector .
With Texas’s severely overcrowded processing centers, Border Patrol officials will likely be forced to release more migrants onto the streets of Eagle Pass and other Texas border cities. On Thursday, a new, larger non-government shelter is slated to open in Eagle Pass, accommodating more migrants released by the Border Patrol to pursue asylum claims within the United States. The new Mission Border Hope shelter, operated by the United Methodist Church, will begin receiving the migrants at their new location and coordinating travel to other parts of the country.
if they have no funds to complete travel arrangements away from the border region. Those migrants have increasingly appeared on city streets asking residents for help to leave the border city. Some have resorted to walking away from the border city to San Antonio — a journey of more than 150 miles.“This all started here when we began releasing single adults. Once word got out, it just got worse from there,” the source lamented.is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.
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