Facing overwhelming numbers of illegal migrants crossing into Texas, the US Border Patrol has announced it’s turning to cell phone technology to help speed up processing.
At Brownsville, a small city near the Gulf of Mexico, a mob of 2,000 migrants crossed the international boundary on Tuesday– bringing the total number of border jumpers to nearly 5,000 just this week, according toBorder Patrol agents continued to process the hordes in a baseball field near Texas Southmost College — an area lined with tents where the processing is taking place.
The procedure screens entrants for criminal backgrounds, takes their biometrics and officially records their entry into the country. Those eligible to stay in the US are given paperwork and released, while the rest are returned to Mexico or sent back to their home countries. The Border Patrol is using special cellphones to help speed up the time it takes them to process migrants.A Border Patrol agent in Brownsville, part of the Rio Grande Valley sector of the agency, processes a migrant with the use of special cell phones.Brownsville is just one of several Texas hot spots, with El Paso leading the nation in migrant apprehensions, the feds stated. So far this fiscal year, the West Texas city has seen 265,000 migrants cross the border.
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