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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 01, 2018, 01:19:16 am

Title: Caravan of 31 parents and kids found after crossing Rio Grande River into US
Post by: mystery-ak on July 01, 2018, 01:19:16 am

Caravan of 31 parents and kids found after crossing Rio Grande River into US
by Anna Giaritelli
 | June 30, 2018 02:24 PM

A caravan of 31 immigrant parents and children were apprehended by border agents along the north side of the Rio Grande River near Hidalgo, Texas, Thursday after having just illegally crossed into the U.S. from Reynosa, Mexico.

Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector's Weslaco Station found the large group on the riverbank after they reportedly crossed on rafts.

Roderick Kise, CBP public affairs officer based in RGV Sector told the Washington Examiner immigrants often "pay the ferryman" to bring children too small to wade across the river from the southern to northern riverbank of the Rio Grande.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/caravan-of-31-parents-and-kids-found-after-crossing-rio-grande-river-into-us (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/caravan-of-31-parents-and-kids-found-after-crossing-rio-grande-river-into-us)

Title: Re: Caravan of 31 parents and kids found after crossing Rio Grande River into US
Post by: Sanguine on July 01, 2018, 02:17:44 am

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The group was taken to Centralized Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, where agents will verify family unit relationships and process them over the next 72 hours.

    **nononono*

Title: Re: Caravan of 31 parents and kids found after crossing Rio Grande River into US
Post by: berdie on July 01, 2018, 02:52:04 am

Is there some law that says we can't just put these folks back over the border?