Border Patrol Begs Biden For Help After Thousands Cross In One Day

Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector encountered nearly 2,000 migrants within 24 hours Friday, with over 262 migrants making it past agents who are exhausted and extremely understaffed.

A spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security said there were 1,909 illegal migrant encounters in the sector, and at least 262 “gotaways,” which agents saw crossing on cameras or sensors but did not have nearly the manpower needed to apprehend them. The number of illegal migrants that were able to get past agents could be substantially higher than the guesstimated 300.

So far in Fiscal Year 2022, the RGV sector has seen more than 65,000 migrant encounters to date, a 161% increase over the same period last year. In the nearby Del Rio Sector, there has been a 236% increase in encounters over the same period last year. The Del Rio Sector has seen 6,500 known gotaways so far this year.

Immediately after taking office, President Joe Biden reversed key border policies that former President Donald Trump had implemented during his administration. Biden has been faced with a major border crisis as more than 1.7 million migrants were encountered in Fiscal Year 2021, and more than 192,000 migrants were encountered in September alone.

The Biden administration blames the Trump administration for shutting off legal asylum pathways as well as blaming “root causes” like poverty, violence, and climate change in Central America for the influx of migrants that have hit record highs.

The Biden administration claims policies such as ending border wall construction and changing the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) — which means that migrants would remain in Mexico to wait for their hearings.

In the meantime Biden has kept Trump-era Title 42 public health protections which allows for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the border, however, the administration is allowing the exemption to unaccompanied minors and also some migrant families — who are being processed and released into the United States with only a notice to report to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office within 60 days.

A federal court order, upheld by the Supreme Court, ruled that the Biden administration had not legally rolled back the MPP and therefore will have to re-establishing that protocol with officials saying they will be re-implementing the program by mid-November.

Earlier this week Texas law enforcement made arrests that involved human trafficking as well as drug trafficking with at least one previously deported felon with convictions for sexual assault.