Massive groups of illegal immigrants nabbed at border amid fears of pre-Trump border surge

A fig of ample groups of illegal immigrants person been caught astatine the confederate borderline successful caller days, arsenic the fig of migrant encounters remains little than successful erstwhile months, but fears persist of a borderline surge earlier the Trump medication takes office.

On Sunday, the Texas Department of Public Safety encountered a radical of 154 amerciable immigrants successful Eagle Pass, Texas. The radical included six peculiar involvement immigrants from Afghanistan and 20 unaccompanied minors.

They were turned implicit to Border Patrol, Texas authorities said.

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This photograph shows migrants astatine the confederate borderline encountered successful Arizona. (Chief Patrol Agent Sean McGoffin- Tucson Sector)

In Arizona, Border Patrol encountered a radical of much than 230 amerciable immigrants adjacent San Miguel, Arizona. Border Patrol said connected Monday the radical was "safely transported for processing."

Numbers person been dropping sharply astatine the borderline since June, erstwhile President Biden signed a statesmanlike proclamation drastically limiting the fig of arrivals who tin travel into the U.S.

In September, determination were 101,790 encounters astatine the border, the lowest fig since February 2021, and determination person been nary large signs of a important summation successful numbers since then.

However, portion numbers stay little than successful erstwhile months, determination person been concerns that the alteration successful administrations whitethorn pb to a surge astatine the borderline arsenic migrants effort to participate the U.S. earlier a perceived tougher medication enters office. Large, cartel-coordinated groups whitethorn beryllium a motion of that enactment opening to vigor up.

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Then-President Trump visits the U.S.-Mexico borderline obstruction successful Otay Mesa, California, connected Sept. 18, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

The Biden medication reportedly held a gathering successful which officials raised concerns astir what a former President Donald Trump victory whitethorn mean for the border.

According to the NBC News report, officials asked if the authorities were prepared for a imaginable spike successful immigration, with immigrants preparing to participate the state astatine the past minute.

Migrants would improbable beryllium motivated by the imaginable of a Trump administration, erstwhile determination person been promises of historical deportations and a crackdown connected sanctuary cities, but would alternatively beryllium motivated by an effort to instrumentality vantage of what whitethorn beryllium lighter borderline information than what they judge volition beryllium successful spot nether the Republican administration.

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The Trump medication has pledged to ramp up borderline information and to motorboat a wide deportation cognition erstwhile it gets into bureau successful January. It has besides pledged to extremity the usage of parole programs by the Biden medication that let migrants to participate successful via the expanded "lawful pathways."

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The medication is already readying to grow migration detention successful bid to facilitate the operation, including setting up centers adjacent large metropolitan areas.