The San Diego border is facing a record surge in migrants, prompting US border officials to establish a new outpost in the city to help accommodate the huge number of migrants caught crossing the border, according to reports.
More than 230,000 people were detained crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego sector, which stretches 60 miles from the Pacific Ocean to around the city of Jacumba Hot Springs, marking a 20-year high for the area, according to Customs and Borders. Protection numbers (CBP).
To help deal with the surge, CBP established an auxiliary preparation center to help arrange transportation for migrants and ensure they are sent to the cities where their sponsor families live, according to Fox 5.
Many of the immigrants there hoped to head to the East Coast, while some said they would first try their luck in Los Angeles.
Near Jacumba, the Post saw about 300 migrants gathered around campfires on the U.S. side of the border fence Monday night. By Tuesday morning, their number had increased to more than 350.
Those migrants were seen slipping through a weak spot in the border fence, where the 30-foot-tall structure abutted a rock wall and left a wide gap that had been plugged with concertina wire.
Migrants slip through a gap between the border fence and a rock wall near Jacumba, California, in the San Diego area. New York Post About 350 migrants were seen gathering along the US-Mexico border near Jacumba, California, on Tuesday morning. New York Post
The immigrants had easily removed the coils of sharp wire and easily climbed through the opening. About 40 people crossed the gap on Tuesday morning, although it is unclear how many did so under the cover of darkness.
The San Diego sector has a robust network of fences along the border, but a CBP representative near Jacumba explained that there are still large tracts of desert terrain that remain open or have weak spots and need to be patrolled in person.
Last week, President Biden allocated $950 million to upgrade and repair the border wall in California, Arizona and Texas, after previously vowing not to build “another foot” of border wall during his presidency.
Beyond basic fence repairs and filling gaps, the funds will go toward new “detection technology” aimed at improving the ability of Border Patrol agents to effectively stop the flow of illegal immigrants entering the country.
About half of the migrants seen near Jacumba Hot Springs, California, on Monday night were from China. New York Post Migrants were detained in the San Diego sector, which recorded record migrant crossings in fiscal year 2023. New York Post
Fiscal year 2023 broke records for crossings along the southern border: at least 1.5 million migrants arrived in the United States, and some estimates from the House Republican Homeland Security Committee reached 1.7 million.
About 900,000 of those people were allowed to enter the country legally after being detained and granted humanitarian parole – which allows them to apply for asylum – while more than 600,000 of the so-called “escapees” crossed the border without being caught by agents of the border patrol, according to CBP figures.
Nearly half of the migrants camped out in Jacumba on Monday night were Chinese, matching a recent trend that has seen a growing number of Chinese nationals cross illegally into the United States through Mexico.
CBP apprehended a record 24,048 Chinese nationals along the southern border in 2023, a 7,000% increase from 2021, when only 323 were apprehended.
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