Thousands of Family Units Released as Border Patro
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Posted On: 12/28/2018 3:32:12 AM
Thousands of Family Units Released as Border Patrol Hits Capacity
Updated: December 27, 2018
Asylum-seekers wait at a Greyhound bus station in El Paso, Texas, after being dropped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on Dec. 23, 2018.
WASHINGTON—As family units pour into the United States, immigration authorities are being forced to release thousands of them into the country within days, as detention space is overwhelmed.
In the past two months, Border Patrol has apprehended more than 102,000 family units and unaccompanied minors along the Southwest border.
In Yuma, Arizona, Sheriff Leon Wilmot said that since September, the Border Patrol has been apprehending anywhere between 116 to 200 illegal aliens daily.
At that pace, the sector will go from handling 5,424 illegal aliens in fiscal 2018 to almost 58,000 during fiscal year 2019.
“Basically what’s happening now, is they’re being processed through Border Patrol here and then they’re bused to Pima County and Maricopa County—to get on buses to get to their final destinations,” Wilmot said. “And that’s usually in the Carolinas—either North or South Carolina—or they’re going to Florida, or they’re going to San Diego.”
“They’re going to other places within the interior of the United States, which is having an impact on those sheriffs and those communities, because they don’t have the adequate resources to be able to handle that.”
Even Greyhound is struggling to keep up. Wilmot said a local NGO rented an entire motel for the family units that had been released but had to wait in Yuma for a bus to become available.
The family units coming into the United States are almost all from Central America. Most cross the border illegally, then turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents and claim asylum.
Read more: https://www.theepochtimes.com/thousands-of-fa...50344.html
Updated: December 27, 2018
Asylum-seekers wait at a Greyhound bus station in El Paso, Texas, after being dropped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on Dec. 23, 2018.
WASHINGTON—As family units pour into the United States, immigration authorities are being forced to release thousands of them into the country within days, as detention space is overwhelmed.
In the past two months, Border Patrol has apprehended more than 102,000 family units and unaccompanied minors along the Southwest border.
In Yuma, Arizona, Sheriff Leon Wilmot said that since September, the Border Patrol has been apprehending anywhere between 116 to 200 illegal aliens daily.
At that pace, the sector will go from handling 5,424 illegal aliens in fiscal 2018 to almost 58,000 during fiscal year 2019.
“Basically what’s happening now, is they’re being processed through Border Patrol here and then they’re bused to Pima County and Maricopa County—to get on buses to get to their final destinations,” Wilmot said. “And that’s usually in the Carolinas—either North or South Carolina—or they’re going to Florida, or they’re going to San Diego.”
“They’re going to other places within the interior of the United States, which is having an impact on those sheriffs and those communities, because they don’t have the adequate resources to be able to handle that.”
Even Greyhound is struggling to keep up. Wilmot said a local NGO rented an entire motel for the family units that had been released but had to wait in Yuma for a bus to become available.
The family units coming into the United States are almost all from Central America. Most cross the border illegally, then turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents and claim asylum.
Read more: https://www.theepochtimes.com/thousands-of-fa...50344.html
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