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US to reopen four border Mexico crossings as illegal immigration drops: Official

Alicia Brian Published January 3, 2024
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The US will reopen four legal US-Mexico border crossings on Thursday as high levels of illegal immigration have receded and freed up personnel, a senior US official said on Tuesday.

The US will reopen an international bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, two crossings in Arizona, and another near San Diego, California, the official said during a call with reporters.

US border authorities struggled in December to process migrants as apprehensions reached nearly 11,000 in a single day, which several current and former officials said was near or at a record high.

Asylum-seeking migrants try to cross a barbed wire that was placed by members of the Texas National Guard on the banks of the Rio Bravo river, the border between the United States and Mexico, with the purpose of reinforcing border security and inhibiting the crossing of migrants to United States, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Mexican and US officials pledged last week to work together more closely to tackle record migration at their shared border after top US officials traveled to Mexico to meet with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Mexican officials have stepped up immigration enforcement in recent weeks, including moving migrants to southern Mexico and resuming deportation flights to Venezuela, a separate senior US official said.

US border authorities arrested an average of 6,400 migrants per day over the past week, according to an internal US government report reviewed by Reuters, a steep decline from the levels before Christmas.

Border Patrol agents are seeing a sharp rise in families crossing the border, a change from past years when most of the migrants entering the U.S. at the Southern border were single men. photo by Lucy Nicholson, Reuters.

On the call with reporters, one of the US officials cautioned that migrant crossings have historically dropped between Christmas and New Year’s Day. All officials requested anonymity as a condition of the call.

“We have seen over the last year periods of increased encounters and periods of decreased encounters,” the official said. “We will continue to stand ready to respond to these kinds of surges.”

Lawmakers in the US Congress remain in talks over a possible deal that would combine increased border security measures with foreign aid, including military funding for Ukraine, officials said.

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