Juarez City.- Irregular crossings of migrants through the El Paso Sector totaled 39,512 cases during March, 20.22 percent more than the 32,866 registered during February, the United States Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) reported yesterday. for its acronym in English).
They were people who crossed the border through an unauthorized port and who were found by Border Patrol agents from the El Paso Sector, mainly of Mexican origin; however, 66.81 percent of the cases culminated in expulsion to the Mexican borders or directly to their country of origin.
Throughout the border with Mexico, which is divided into nine Border Patrol sectors, its agents detected 162,317 irregular crossings of people in March, 85,466 of whom were expelled through Title 42.
The sector with the highest flow of migrants continues to be El Paso, followed by the Tucson sector, with 33,949 encounters; Del Río, with 23,812; San Diego, with 23,125; Rio Grande Valle, with 17,958; Yuma, with 13,224 crosses; Laredo, with 5 thousand 092; The Center, with 4 thousand 451; and Big Bend, with 1,194 migrants found.
Of the total migrants found in this sector, 19,238 were Mexican, equivalent to 48.69 percent of all migrants found; while 4,462 were migrants from Guatemala, 2,149 from El Salvador, 1,088 from Honduras and 12,575 more from other countries.
Of these, 30,050 were adults traveling alone or in a group with other adults, 7,175 were traveling as part of a family unit, and 2,287 more were unaccompanied children and adolescents.
“CBP works around the clock to perform our vital missions, including maintaining border security (…) CBP will continue to enforce our immigration laws and intensify efforts to combat misinformation from smugglers as we prepare to return to proceedings removal under Title 8 authorities, which carry more stringent consequences such as a five-year re-entry ban and possible criminal prosecution for illegal entry,” Acting CBP Commissioner Troy A. Miller said in the report. the monthly operation of March.
One of the largest flows of migrants who crossed the border during March from Ciudad Juárez occurred on the 29th. According to the migrants, a false rumor began through social networks that the United States had opened its doors to migrants who were in Ciudad Juárez after the fire registered on March 27 at the National Institute of Migration (INM), in which 40 people lost their lives and 28 more were injured.
The El Paso Sector Border Patrol narrated that on March 29, at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon, they received reports of a group of migrants made up of between 200 and 500 people walking east through the Mexican border crossing and At approximately 4:00 p.m., agents at the El Paso station began finding groups of migrants.
These groups were between 20 and 30 people, until on Wednesday night they added more than a thousand people “illegally entering the United States and turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents at the border gate near Barker Street and Cesar E. Chavez.” Border Highway (at the height of the Cuatro Siglos Convention Center in Ciudad Juárez). And throughout the day they added more than a thousand people, most of whom were expelled across other borders days later.
During April, people in a situation of mobility have also assured that there are messages through social networks that assure them that the Joe Biden government is receiving families with minors, so on April 12, 1,500 more people crossed the border , at border marker number 36, where one of the gates in the wall is located, and where they were processed by the agents with the warning that they would be returned.
According to CBP statistics, the El Paso sector had 265,037 migrant encounters at the border during the first six months of fiscal year 2023; 53,316 of them in October, when FY-2023 began, 55,541 in November, 55,768 in December, 30,034 in January, 32,866 in February and 39,512 more in March.
On the entire border with Mexico (9 Border Patrol sectors)
In March
162,317 irregular crossings of people
85,466 were evicted via Title 42
with more flow
Encounter Sector
El Paso 39,512
Tucson 33,949
Del Rio 23,812
San Diego 23,125
Rio Grande Valley 17,958
Yuma 13,224
Laredo 5,092
The Center 4,451
Big Bend 1,194
Main origin of migrants
•México
•Guatemala
•El Salvador
•Honduras
