US Border Patrol Reports Sharp Increase in Illegal Crossing
SAN DIEGO—U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents working in the San Diego area have seen a nearly 30 percent increase in illegal border-crossing during the first half of the current fiscal year, as compared with the comparable period last year, the federal agency reported March 20.
From last October through the beginning of this month, USBP San Diego Sector agents encountered 86,074 people who had entered the United States unlawfully, according to Border Patrol public affairs. Over the first six months of the prior fiscal year, that statistic topped out at 67,222, the agency reported.
A total of 55 percent of the migrants apprehended locally this fiscal year were from nations other than Mexico, with the top five countries being Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Nicaragua, and Turkey….