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103 illegal aliens arrested at Arizona border; CBP alarmed at uptick in border crossings by large groups


By Frank Miles | Fox News


Mexico announces plans to close shelter housing 1,600 migrants: Will they go to Texas?


A group of 103 illegal Central Americans — composed of 81 Guatemalans and 22 Hondurans, and including 59 minors — was detained Monday morning west of Lukeville, Ariz., according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The U.S. Border Patrol, an arm of the CBP, said agents using mobile surveillance technology first spotted the group — ranging in age from 1 to 56 years old — “as they walked through the anti-vehicle post-and-rail fence that delineates the U.S.-Mexico border.”

It's unclear what is driving a sudden uptick in large groups in remote areas attempting to cross the border, but families -- many of them Central American asylum-seekers -- make up a large and growing percentage of arrests at the border, authorities said.

“In the last few months, Border Patrol agents have seen an alarming surge of large family groups crossing the border illegally at the direction of human smugglers,” CBP said in a statement. “Transnational criminal organizations exploit the vulnerability of family groups with false promises of legal status and encourage dangerous border crossings, placing lives at risk.”

Meanwhile, the latest groundbreaking of the Trump administration's border wall project came three days after President Trump declared a national emergency.

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed the fourth legal challenge to the emergency declaration.
A group of 16 states, including California, New York and Colorado, filed a lawsuit Monday against Trump’s emergency declaration to build the proposed border wall. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges Trump’s declaration is unconstitutional. All the states involved in the lawsuit have Democratic attorneys general.

Trump inherited barriers covering about one-third of the border. His administration has awarded $1 billion in contracts to cover 97 miles, with the vast majority of the work being done to replace existing barriers. Work on the first extension of the barrier is scheduled to begin later this month — 14 miles in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.

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U.S. Border Patrol agents detain a group of 103 migrants near Lukeville

Brooke Miller, Arizona Republic Published 9:50 p.m. MT Feb. 19, 2019

Border Patrol agents found more than 300 Central American migrants in southwest Arizona on Feb. 8, 2019. (Photo11: Customs and Border Protection)


U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Ajo Station in southwest Arizona found and detained 103 Central American migrants near the desert west of Lukeville on Monday morning, the agency said.
It was the latest in a string of incidents in which large groups from Central America have been found in Arizona's desert.

Agents spotted the group via mobile surveillance technology walking through the post-and-rail fence that delineates the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Of the 103 migrants accused of illegally crossing the border, 81 were Guatemalan and 22 were Honduran, authorities said.

Among family units, the group was composed of 59 minors, eight of whom were unaccompanied by a legal guardian, officials said.

The group encountered U.S. Border Patrol agents fewer than 50 yards from the border,in a similar area where other migrant groups have been located in recent months, according to the agency.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is asking individuals to report suspicious activity to Border Patrol by calling 877-872-7435. All calls will be answered and will remain anonymous.

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BUS THEM ALL BACK HOME

THIS HAS GOT TO STOP

PROCESS AND HAND THOSE UAC'S OVER INTO THE CARE AND CUSTODY OF THEIR PRESIDENT

SHUT THAT WHOLE BORDER DOWN TRUMP!