Within a 24-hour period, there were 1,909 encounters with illegal immigrants, including no less than 262 “gotaways,” in which CBP officers monitored their crossing through camera or sensors, though they did not have the available manpower to seize them, Department of Homeland Security sources told Fox News. Many more are likely to have crossed undetected.
The RGV sector has encountered over 65,000 migrants in the 2022 Fiscal Year, a 161 percent increase from the same period last year.
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In Fiscal Year 2021, more than 1.7 million migrants were encountered and over 192,000 migrants were encountered in September alone.
On Friday, CBP announced that four members of the MS-13 street gang were arrested by Border Patrol agents this week along with two migrants with prior arrests for alleged sex crimes.
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Officials from the El Paso Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol declared that dozens of adults posing as unaccompanied minors had been caught trying to illegally cross the border, with more than 55 adults posing as children apprehended since Oct. 1.
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“Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) frequently recruit and exploit individuals, convincing them to pose as unaccompanied children (UCs) as they are smuggled into the United States,” officials announced in a statement.
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The surge in adults caught posing as children at the border signals increased gang activity.
“About 30% of the MS-13 members arrested in recent years by ICE originally entered the US as unaccompanied minors,” announced Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies. “And it is not just happening in the El Paso sector.”
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Adults are incentivized to pose as children by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, which needs the Department of Homeland Security to transfer minors to Health and Human Services within 72 hours, even if the child has not been trafficked, the CIS states. HHS then quickly places them with sponsors in the U.S., and there is minimal risk of deportation – even for a criminal alien.
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Yery Noel Medina Ulloa, 24, of Honduras, triumphantly crossed the border posing an underaged migrant earlier this year. He was arrested for killing Francisco Javier Cuella, a father of four who offered Ulloa shelter, on Oct. 7 in Jacksonville, Fla. Authorities found his real age and identity a week later from Honduran authorities.
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The number of adults found pretending to be children comes on top of 23,000 unaccompanied minors caught in the El Paso area last year and over 100,000 across the whole border.
CBP and Texas DPS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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