Border agents from northern sectors return home after Southwest detail, DHS says
by: Sandra Sanchez
Posted: Mar 30, 2023 / 06:30 PM CDT
Updated: Mar 30, 2023 / 06:30 PM CDT
Agents are also being reassigned to El Paso Sector amid surge
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Nearly all of the Border Patrol agents who had been deployed from northern sectors to the Southwest border have returned home, but some are being sent to El Paso where there is an immigrant surge, Border Report has learned.
Border agents get reinforcements amid surge
The Department of Homeland Security had detailed over 20% of its northern border workforce in 2022 to help at the Southwest border. But a DHS spokesperson says, for the most part, that is no longer necessary.
“Global and hemispheric irregular migration required a re-allocation of resources to the Southwest border. However, the department’s successful new policies have reduced encounters between ports of entry to the lowest levels since February 2021 for two consecutive months, allowing CBP to return nearly 95% of agents who had been detailed from the northern border back to their normal posts,” a DHS spokesperson told Border Report.
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