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US Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Ed Karsich says in his 30 years as an agent he has “never witnessed the conditions we are currently facing on the southwest border," @EllieCKaufman reports from Senate hearing
@EllieCKaufman 2/ Karsich said this is not a “manufactured crisis created by those of us who live and work in the border area” because “border patrol continue to apprehend record numbers of people.”
3/ Karsich said that, last year, the Rio Grande Valley part of Border Patrol alone made 162,000 apprehensions. This year, they have already made 147,000 and are on track to make 260,000 by the end of the year, he said.
4/ Karsich said they are apprehending about 1,000 people illegally crossing the border every day right now. “That’s roughly the capacity of 17 commercial buses,” he said.
-- @EllieCKaufman reporting
-- @EllieCKaufman reporting
