Border Patrol in Texas overwhelmed with migrants

 American Action News:

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will visit the Del Rio sector in Texas Wednesday, where the number of illegal immigrants in custody has hit 169% capacity, according to internal data exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Mayorkas will be accompanied by Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens while meeting with agents in the Del Rio sector to receive “operational updates,” DHS said in a press release Tuesday evening. Border Patrol nationwide had roughly 20,000 migrants in their custody as of Wednesday morning, according to the internal data.

In addition to the Del Rio sector, Arizona’s Tucson sector is at 175% capacity and the nationwide capacity is at 90%, according to the data. Eagle Pass, Texas, which is located in the Del Rio sector, has seen a large influx of illegal crossings in recent days, forcing the shutdown of a port to vehicle inspections.

The Tucson sector canceled all training activities, closed a vehicle checkpoint and shut down its social media updates, according to internal agency communications recently obtained by the DCNF.

Additionally, the agency asked northern and coastal border agents to help colleagues at the southern border by ramping up virtual processing of migrants encountered after they’ve crossed illegally from Mexico, according to an internal agency memo obtained by the DCNF.
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This is just a small fraction of the millions of illegals who have come into the country since 
Biden loosened the control of the borders.  They are not just coming from Mexico now.  They are coming from all over the world and the northern border is now also overrun.  Biden and Mayorkas handling of illegal immigration has been a disaster.

See also:

At King Ranch, Migrant Waves are Threatening a Texas Institution

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But King Ranch is in trouble, and it’s not from drought or cattle prices. The sprawling South Texas ranch is being overrun with migrants traveling up from the U.S. border to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and other points north. If King Ranch is in trouble, Texas is in trouble.

On a recent tour of the Rio Grande Valley, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Border Security Coalition learned of the sprawling ranch’s new challenges. They range from migrants traveling through the property on foot—often with fatal consequences, in a land that was once known as the Wild Horse Desert for its inhospitality, to cars, trucks and vans attempting to evade law enforcement by driving through fences, gates and even bar ditches. Sometimes, the heat from their catalytic converters cause brush fires—fires that can quickly spread.

Then there are the bailouts, as they’re known—the men and women who wreck their vehicles in their flight, or get bogged down in the brush, cacti and nearly impassible mesquite trees. If they’re able, they attempt to flee on foot. They don’t get far—if they’re lucky. Being found quickly by King Ranch security or any local constable or sheriff personnel at least means they stand a chance of surviving. Far too many are recovered only after they’ve succumbed to the heat. King Ranch workers—who are still known, as they were in the 1830s, as los kineños—regularly find corpses, though sometimes they’re merely skeletons.
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I used to drive through the ranch going back and forth to my parent's house down in San Benito.  There were signs saying there were no gas stations for miles letting people know they better fill up before going through it. 

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