The Border Crisis Goes Global
Who will follow the Congolese and Angolans?
By Andrew R. Arthur on June 19, 2019
In a June 11, 2019, post, I described the unfolding national-security and humanitarian disaster at the Southwest border, as Border Patrol apprehensions in May reached 132,887. The majority (90 percent according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics) of those apprehended were from Mexico and the "Northern Triangle" countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. A recent New York Times article, however, indicates that increasing numbers of nationals from around the world are now coming to the border to exploit our lax immigration laws.
That article, captioned "A New Migrant Surge at the Border, This One From Central Africa", noted an influx of nationals from Africa (primarily Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo) across the border in one particular part of Texas:
Since October 2018, more than 700 migrants from Africa have been apprehended at what has become their main point of entry, the Border Patrol's Del Rio sector, a largely rural stretch of Texas border that is nearly 200 miles west of San Antonio.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Border-Crisis-Goes-Global
