Border Patrol agents in San Diego have released hundreds of migrants from buses as the U.S.-Mexico border crisis continues to overwhelm California.
The city is struggling to cope with an influx of migrants into the area and footage captured shows them being released from overflowing facilities.
A border agent was heard telling a person he could do whatever he wanted as people from countries including China and Pakistan were dropped off on the streets Thursday afternoon.
It comes as southwest border cities and federal processing centers are overcapacity as a crush of crossings paralyzes the country.
There were more than 7,000 illegal border crossings between the United States and Mexico this week.
Border Patrol agents in San Diego have released hundreds of migrants from buses as the U.S.-Mexico border crisis continues to overwhelm California.
The city is struggling to cope with an influx of migrants into the area and footage captured shows them being released from overflowing facilities.
It comes as southwest border cities and federal processing centers are overcapacity as a crush of crossings paralyzes the country.
Video shows at least three unmarked white Border Patrol buses filled with migrants parked in San Diego.
They began to release several hundred people onto the streets. An agent told a migrant: “You are free to continue and do wherever you want. You are free.’
He asked, “It’s no problem if I go to Chicago?”
“You can do whatever you want,” the manager replied.
The San Diego Border Patrol reportedly dealt with 20,000 migrants in custody over the past week, 5,000 more than the facility can handle.
It cannot accommodate more than 15,000 migrants and sends them to the streets to fend for themselves after passing them at the border.
Similar migrant releases took place in Tucson, Arizona, where agents were encountering 2,000 people a day and tending to crowded shelters.
Nationals from the African countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Ghana and Sudan are among the migrants who recently crossed the border into the United States from Mexico.
Those released are now forced to fend for themselves in intense heat and limited resources.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seen encounters at the southwest border increase exponentially each fiscal year. So far this year, nearly 2 million people have crossed the region – a figure that does not include August and September.
Cochise County, Arizona, is being hit by waves of migrants bused from other counties after crossing the border amid President Joe Biden’s lax policies.
The “intellectual avoidance and abandonment with intended consequences” by leaders in Washington, D.C., of reference to our southern border continues to be a slippery slope for those who do everything we can to protect our quality of life here in Cochise County! » said Sheriff Mark Dannels.
The San Diego Border Patrol reportedly dealt with 20,000 migrants in custody over the past week, 5,000 more than the facility can handle.
There were more than 7,000 illegal border crossings between the United States and Mexico this week.
“The released migrants are from outside Cochise County, but were bused to Cochise County, processed and then released,” Daniels noted in a Facebook post.
“I applaud local (Customs and Border Protection) officers and their leaders for doing everything they legally can during this current crisis.”
It’s unclear how many migrants Tucson’s processing facilities can accommodate or how many have been transported to other locations such as Cochise County.
The U.S. border has seen an influx of migrants from around the world, not just Central and South American countries like Venezuela and Mexico. Migrants from China and other countries have entered via the porous southern border.
Fiscal year 2022 saw a record number of migrant encounters at the southwest border, with 2,378,944 crossings reported from October to September.
In 2023, through July, there have been 1,973,092 – many of which are coming as Title 42 expires.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents are turning away migrants after processing them because their facilities are overcrowded and full to capacity.
The Senegalese migrants are among thousands who have been turned away from processing centers and left on the streets to fend for themselves.
The number of migrant crossings in August is expected to exceed 230,000, according to Fox News.
The increase in crossings has increased in recent years with only 458,088 crossings reported in 2020 during the global COVID pandemic.
Most of the migrants encountered are single adults, or 64.9 percent, but nearly 600,000 are individuals belonging to a family unit and 109,298 unaccompanied minors have crossed the border.
Overcapacity issues are occurring across the southern border. Along with Tucson, street releases are taking place in the San Diego area and Santa Cruz County, California.
Texas is using barbed wire to keep migrants from entering illegally as it fights a challenge from the Biden administration seeking to stop it from building a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande.
