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Shift of illegal crossings into Texas accelerates
Associated Press ^ | May 23, 2014 7:35 PM EDT | Christopher Sherman

Posted on 05/24/2014 1:18:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A shift by immigrant smugglers to target the tough-to-defend U.S.-Mexico border in southernmost Texas has accelerated this year as the Border Patrol scrambles to shift its resources from states farther west, according to an internal agency report obtained by The Associated Press.

From Oct. 1 through May 17, agents in the southernmost tip of Texas made more than 148,000 arrests, on pace to match last year’s total in less than eight months, according to the intelligence report. That compares with nearly 63,000 arrests in the Tucson, Arizona, sector, which it surpassed for the first time just last year. The Rio Grande Valley sector averaged nearly 1,100 arrests per day from May 11-17, according to the document.

What these numbers look like on the ground is a near-constant flow of people across the Rio Grande. The arrests do not represent the full level of traffic, only those who are caught, but the report’s hourly breakdowns showed the arrests never stopped. Heat maps illustrating concentrations of arrests glowed bright red along miles of the Rio Grande south of McAllen. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bordercrossings; illegals; liberalagenda; obama; texas
Can’t believe the AP is calling them “illegal” border crossings. That sure is a stretch for them.
1 posted on 05/24/2014 1:18:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

U.S. Air Base Provides Comfort and Benefits for 1,000 Illegal Immigrants in Texas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3157831/posts


2 posted on 05/24/2014 1:24:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Olog-hai

And the arrests are just a tiny percentage of illegal crossings.


3 posted on 05/24/2014 2:05:59 AM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: Olog-hai

“And the state of Texas has been declared for Hillary Clinton...”


4 posted on 05/24/2014 5:44:42 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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And the arrests are just a tiny percentage of illegal crossings.
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Correct. Texas should just install motion detection sensors connected to machine guns and blow away anything that moves in the kill zone. I’m at the point where I don’t give a damn what their ages are, whether they’re cartel smugglers or what countries they are from, since they are illegally entering the US and we are overrun with illegals as it is.


5 posted on 05/24/2014 5:47:49 AM PDT by octex
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To: Olog-hai

Well they gotta get here for amnesty dude. :-)


6 posted on 05/24/2014 7:41:21 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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