Posted on 03/11/2019 4:43:13 PM PDT by CedarDave
SUNLAND PARK – Border Patrol Agent Joe Romero looks across into Anapra, Mexico, his gaze fixed on a woman and two children walking with determination past Monument One, an official border marker for the spot where New Mexico, Texas and Chihuahua converge.
“If you don’t mind turning yourself in, this is a great place to do it and easy way to do it,” Romero said of the stretch at Sunland Park that has become a busy crossing point for Central American families.
As elected officials from Washington, D.C., to Santa Fe grapple with the policy implications of tens of thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children seeking refuge at our nation’s southwestern border, agents like Romero are on the front lines watching the chaos unfold.
From late afternoon into Monday night, Romero will encounter more than 60 such migrants, with the vast majority asking for asylum. They are all ages, including infants and toddlers in the arms of their parents. They also cover the gamut from well-dressed and rested to exhausted, bedraggled and extremely fearful.
Romero will also run into four heavily armed militia members who have camped out to keep watch. And he will spot a man wearing sunglasses and a cap seated across the border in Mexico taking notes, clearly a lookout for the human smugglers, the agent says.
These days, the El Paso sector, which includes all of New Mexico, is coping with a 430 percent increase in family migration. Last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection released the latest numbers for the entire border, and February set a record with more than 76,000 parents with children and juveniles arriving on their own.
In most cases, they have paid smugglers to drop them off near the border.
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Today the Journal kicks off a four-part series that introduces you to Border Patrol Agent Joe Romero and what he and his colleagues experienced during a normal shift last Monday as they patrolled the border from El Paso to Sunland Park, N.M. Stories will be published today, Monday and next weekend.
Border Patrol agent Joe Romero looks around the border wall in Sunland Park into Anapra, Mexico. A gap in the structure has become a busy spot for migrants seeking to cross into the U.S. to ask for asylum.
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**** Keep in mind, these numbers represent those who were caught (apprehended). How many were not caught? ****
Southwest Apprehensions By Fiscal Year
| Total Apprehensions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sector | FY 2019* To Date | FY 2019 Projected | FY 2018 | FY 2017 |
| Big Bend TX | 3,058* | 7,339 | 8,045 | 6,002 |
| Del Rio TX | 12,650* | 30,360 | 15,833 | 13,476 |
| El Centro CA | 14,930* | 35,832 | 29,230 | 18,633 |
| El Paso TX | 48,535* | 116,484 | 31,561 | 25,193 |
| Laredo TX | 13,928* | 33,427 | 32,641 | 25,460 |
| Rio Grande TX | 102,908* | 246,979 | 162,262 | 137,562 |
| San Diego CA | 24,185* | 58,044 | 38,591 | 26,086 |
| Tucson AZ | 24,811* | 59,546 | 52,172 | 38,657 |
| Yuma AZ | 23,037* | 55,289 | 26,244 | 12,847 |
| USBP Southwest Border Total | 267,044* | 643,300 | 396,579 | 303,916 |
Texas apprehensions FY 2019 - 181,079
Texas apprehensions FY 2018 - 250,342
Texas apprehensions FY 2017 - 207,693
Arizona apprehensions FY 2019 - 47,848
Arizona apprehensions FY 2018 - 78,416
Arizona apprehensions FY 2017 - 51,504
California apprehensions FY 2018 - 39,115
California apprehensions FY 2018 - 67,821
California apprehensions FY 2017 - 44,719
Notes:
1. Fiscal Year 2019 Projected is based on the current 5 month (Oct - Feb) average and does not assume an increase in that average...which more than likely will occur.
2. For the Las Cruces (NM) station, see El Paso Sector.
3. These numbers represent Apprehensions (wind up in our country) and do not include Inadmisibles (generally turned away at points of entry).
Its a whole industry, where they have salespeople out enticing and convincing people to keep their buses full - at around $5,000 a head for a few days trip and some briefings on how to beat the system to get in, and who to talk to in the US, to learn how to milk the welfare system.
We should have Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement Task Forces targeting those trafficking organizations, with special (secret) authorization to use extraordinary methods to disrupt their operations.
They are not "grappling" with squat. They are completely avoiding dealing with the issue.
They are not "grappling" with squat. They are completely avoiding dealing with the issue.
“How many were not caught?”
And what happened to the ones who were caught?
Not only avoiding dealing with the issue, but in on the payoff from big business to drive down labor costs, etc.
As long as there are gaps like this, there’s really no wall.
That photo is the West end of El Paso county. The east end looks exactly like it. Except for maybe a mile total at the Ft Hancock POE that’s it. El Paso county has the only wall but Ft Hancock LEOs carry automatic weapons. (They were badly outgunned by the Mexican army,running security for a drug shipment.)
Two senators, one from the whitest state in the northeast and the other from Alaska haven't even bothered to visit a border that doesn't include Canada. They all think you pronounce "Martinez" as "martin-ez".
I know several guys that are agents with the El Paso sector, they can give accounts of things that will make your hair stand on end.
The border in Grant and Hildago counties is virtually wide open.
No one knows how many are not caught.
If those caught request asylum they are processed and released in the US while their asylum claim is processed, then if not granted they can be deported. Due to several court rulings they can only hold them so many days unless they cannot be cleared due to medical or other reasons.
If those caught have been previously deported, are wanted then they can be held for court or deportation. Those from Mexico if caught at the border can be deported. If from a country other than Mexico deportation gets a little more involved.
Most are now claiming asylum, it can take 2 years or more for a determination to be made. Claiming asylum forces catch and release.
Illegals know our laws better than we do, and each time a court ruling goes their way they flood the border.
And what happened to the ones who were caught?
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Released into the interior of the country.
With some told to report for a court hearing sometime in the future.
About 100% of which would never show up.
This whole immigration thing is a really, really horrible joke.
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