Border guards detained three convicted of sexual crimes in just one sector in four days

Border Patrol Agents At one stretch of the besieged southern border alone, three convicted sex offenders were arrested in four days, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said this week.

All detentions took place in the Del Rio sector on the border and began on January 2, when agents detained a 45-year-old Mexican citizen with a previous conviction for indecent behavior with a child.

He was convicted and then deported in 2005 for this crime. The agents encountered him among a group of six migrants who were trying to sneak past the agents at the train station.

On Thursday, agents at Eagle Pass – one of the illegal border crossing centers – agents arrested a 27-year-old Mexican man who had a previous conviction for indecency with a child since 2016 and a second for refusing to register as a gender. offender next year. He was last deported in 2019.

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On the same day, agents detained six illegal immigrants who were trying to hide from the border guard at a local ranch. One of these men in this group was a 43-year-old Mexican who was convicted in 2011 of sexual assault in Austin, Texas.

A CBP press release said all offenders face the potential charge of re-entry after deportation.

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SASABE, ARIZONA – JANUARY 23: A US Border Patrol agent stands on a cliff looking for migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border wall near Sasabe, Arizona on Sunday, January 23, 2022.
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All of the arrests came ahead of President Biden’s visit to the southern border in El Paso on Sunday, where he met with community leaders, officials and visited the border wall with Border Patrol agents.

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Since then, a bipartisan group of senators visited El Paso and Yuma, Arizona This week, another group of Republican senators visited the Del Rio sector to learn more about the humanitarian crisis at the border.

Over 2.3 million migrant encounters were recorded in fiscal year 2022, and fiscal year 2023 started off with even bigger numbers, with more than 233,740 in November alone. Meanwhile, more than 73,000 illegal immigrants evaded border agents.

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The number of shoots for November means that there are already more of them 137,000 shoots so far this fiscal year, which began in October. There were nearly 600,000 escapes in fiscal year 2022. In fiscal year 2021, there were 389,155 breakouts at the border.