Arizona | October 12, 2021
More Than 100 Illegal Immigrants Found Near Southern Border, Most Unaccompanied Minors
Arizona | October 12, 2021
Arizona, Texas | June 28, 2021
542 Percent Increase in Convicted Sex Offenders Arrested at Border
Arizona, Texas | June 28, 2021
DEL RIO, Texas—Border Patrol agents have arrested 353 illegal aliens with sex-related criminal convictions so far this fiscal year. A large number of the detainees had prior convictions for crimes involving a minor.
In all of fiscal 2020, agents apprehended 156 criminal sex offenders, and 58 total in fiscal 2019.
The number of criminals illegally crossing the southwest border has spiked in tandem with the border crossing surge this year. Convicted criminals are the most likely population of illegal aliens trying to avoid capture by Border Patrol.
Border Patrol has detected more than 250,000 illegal aliens who have evaded capture so far this year, according to the newly-appointed Acting Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz on June 24. It’s impossible to estimate how many have evaded Border Patrol without detection.
“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t read a paper or a report from my agents that talks about criminal aliens, sexual offenders that they’ve apprehended out there,” Ortiz said during an event in Del Rio, Texas.
“Those folks aren’t getting released in these communities. Guess what happens to them? They go to jail. When they get out of jail, they go back to their country of origin.”…
(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)