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Border Patrol nabs record 2,200 illegals in single sector on Memorial Day

While Americans across the country remembered the men and women who died for freedom on Memorial Day, a record number of illegal immigrants streamed into downtown El Paso, Texas.

Border Patrol officials told KVIA Memorial Day was “the busiest recent day of enforcement activity for the El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents during the ongoing influx” that’s expected to reach 1 million illegals across the border into the U.S. in fiscal year 2019.

More than 2,200 illegal immigrants were apprehended in that sector alone, which included several large groups of hundreds crossing at a time. About 1,850 of the apprehensions involved illegal immigrants who wandered across in the “geographic area between Executive Boulevard and Midway Street in El Paso,” officials told the news site.

Read the full story from The American Mirror


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