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    Faced with ‘OTMs,’ Border Patrol shifts manpower

    Faced with ‘OTMs,’ Border Patrol shifts manpower

    Posted: Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:58 pm
    By Dave Hendricks The Monitor

    WESLACO — Border Patrol announced plans last week to shift agents from the Laredo Sector to the Rio Grande Valley Sector, where they’ll form a dedicated processing team.

    The agents have been re-assigned to the Weslaco Station, where they’ll process people apprehended by Border Patrol. That should reduce the strain on local agents, who have struggled with the extensive paperwork required to process so-called “Other Than Mexicans” — an actual category used by Border Patrol on statistical reports.

    Border Patrol wouldn’t release details about the manpower shift, including how many agents had actually been re-assigned, citing operational security.

    “This is a win-win,” said Agent Enrique Mendiola, an agency spokesman. “We get additional resources. Those agents aren’t having to commute long distances.”

    Border Patrol took similar action in the mid-2000s, when local agents encountered large numbers of immigrants from Brazil who entered the United States illegally. Agents must complete special paperwork, called an “A File,” for people who aren’t from Mexico. The time-consuming paperwork has strained the agency’s resources.

    The number of Other Than Mexicans — most agents simply call the classification OTMs — has steadily increased during the past decade, especially along the Texas-Mexico border.

    “Over the past three years, OTM apprehensions have more than tripled nationwide and have been concentrated along the South Texas border. The reasons for this dramatic increase, and its geographical concentration in Texas, are not altogether clear,” the Congressional Research Service reported in 2005.

    For Border Patrol agents assigned to the McAllen Station, which handles a 30-odd mile stretch between Hidalgo and Sullivan City, the problem reached critical mass during the past two months.

    Statistics provided by Border Patrol show agents assigned to the McAllen Station apprehended about 2,800 people during December and another 2,800 in January. The number spiked to nearly 4,800 people in February. Agents told The Monitor that they appended more than 7,500 people last month, but Border Patrol didn’t respond to a request for confirmation.

    Combined with an influx of OTMs, who require additional paperwork, agents have struggled to process everyone they’ve detained. Agents have complained about overcrowding and unsanitary conditions at the McAllen Station, and called the city’s fire marshal to complain.

    Adding agents at the Weslaco Station, which will have a dedicated processing unit, should help reduce the burden.

    “This was going to be a no-cost fix for us,” Mendiola said. “It was basically your low-hanging fruit.”

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    No doubt those borders are secure and certain an amnesty will increase security.
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