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Border Patrol agents have apprehended a staggering 19,400 migrants at the border in Lukeville, Arizona, as officials continue to struggle to halt the record influx. John R Modlin, the Chief Patrol Agent at the border's Tuscon Sector, said on Friday the almost 20,000 apprehensions included 13 human smuggling events, 15 rescues, six narcotics events, four convicted sex offenders, and 155 federal criminal cases. The US-Mexico border saw 192,000 migrants apprehended in total last month, a rise from the 188,000 that were apprehended in October, US Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens told CNN.

BREAKING: Border wall breach & mass incursion taking place in Lukeville, AZ in a completely different area than before. Hundreds crossing illegally east of the port of entry right now. Many men from Africa & families from Ecuador & MX. Men from Guinea chanting “America!” to us.

"This happened just minutes ago. More breaking footage from Lukeville, Arizona. With the attacks we just saw in Israel what I’m seeing on the border is even more concerning. Please share and help wake up America to this national security threat being brought in by Joe Biden and the Democrats!"

A media report revealed that Biden administration officials welded border wall gates open near Lukeville, Arizona. The open gates allow migrants to freely walk through the border wall and into the Arizona desert. Border Patrol officials admitted responsibility for a decision to weld open flood gates in sections of border wall near Lukeville, the New York Post reported. The admission reportedly came after the agency attempted to blame other federal agencies for the action that allows thousands of migrants to freely cross into what is now the nation’s busiest border sector. The Tucson Sector led the nation in migrant apprehensions...

A Russian national was shot by a Border Patrol agent Thursday night in the Arizona desert near Lukeville, on the Mexican border southwest of Tucson. The individual, whose identity was not released by authorities, was taken to a Phoenix-area hospital... Lukeville is an unincorporated hamlet with a border crossing, and lies within the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in a rugged stretch of desert about 110 miles southwest of Tucson. The area has seen a large number of migrants crossing the border to turn themselves in to federal border agents and request asylum over the past year... The Trump administration...

This week, U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered three groups of 98, 66, and 78 people east of Sasabe. The three groups, comprised mostly of Central American families, surrendered to agents after crossing the border illegally. Tucson Sector Border Patrol has seen large groups of family units shift from the Lukeville area to Sasabe over the course of the summer. During the months of April and May, multiple groups of several hundred people surrendered to Border Patrol agents near Quitobaquito Springs west of Lukeville. The last such group in the region was on May 28. Since the beginning of May, a...

A Glendale man shot to death by a U.S. Customs inspector last week as he apparently tried to force his way across the border had run from law enforcement officers in the past, court records show. Officials said William Otto Petersen, 30, and Inspector Phillip Reese, 46, struggled after Reese asked Petersen to comply with a vehicle search because he thought the man was suspicious. During the fight, authorities said, Petersen started the engine of his red Chevrolet Suburban and began driving forward while pulling on Reese. The inspector, fearing for his safety and that of another nearby inspector, fired...