Border Patrol Stops Prosecuting First-Time Crossers in Key Sector

A completely unprecedented border migration surge notwithstanding, The Wall Street Journal reports today that U.S. Border Patrol will no longer prosecute first-time border crossers in West Texas’s pivotal Del Rio Sector. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data from last month, the Del Rio Sector saw an 82% year-over-year increase in unaccompanied alien children apprehensions.

Per The Journal:

Instead of being charged with a misdemeanor, most single migrants, or adults traveling without children, apprehended crossing the border illegally for the first time will face swift deportation without criminal charges. The official said Border Patrol has ceased charging those illegal immigrants amid the increasing number of families crossing the border and seeking asylum and an uptick in other criminal cases that have left them with no detention space.

As The Journal notes, Del Rio Sector prosecutions initially increased during the Bush administration — the 43rd president oversaw border agents who made about 68,000 arrests in the Sector during the federal government’s fiscal year 2005. But arrests in the Sector have not eclipsed 25,000 in a given fiscal year since 2007. . .

As The Daily Wire has previously reported, Customs and Border Protection data on border activity last month were so eye-gouging as to leave The Washington Post’s national security reporter specializing in immigration enforcement and drug trafficking with only one appropriate word: “Bonkers.”

Also in CBP's briefing today:

–Honduras has displaced Mexico as the #2 source of unauthorized migration (Guatemala has been #1 since Nov)
–Last month was the busiest Feb at the border in 12 years
–31k referrals for medical care, up from 12k last Feb

These numbers are bonkers

— Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) March 5, 2019

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