October 25, 2016 9:20 PM
MCALLEN, Texas (CBSNewYork/AP) — There has been a surge of immigrants illegally crossing into the United States
leading up to next month’s presidential election.
Agent Chris Cabrera told CBS News that they’ve been seeing a spike in immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally,
thanks in part to the election.
“The smugglers are telling them
if Hillary [Clinton] gets elected, that there’ll be some sort of amnesty, that they need to get here
by a certain date,” Cabrera said. “They’re also being told that if [Donald] Trump gets elected, there’s going to be some magical wall that pops up overnight and once that wall gets up, nobody will ever get in again.”
Cabrera added that
they’ve encountered up to 1,000 immigrants along McAllen’s stretch of the border some days.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/10/25/immigration-illegal-crossing-election/
