Deportations increase in Texas and Arizona

The accelerated deportation stipulated by the new policy implemented by the Biden administration is already being felt at the border. At the El Paso airport, 104 migrants boarded a flight to Guatemala.

El Paso Border Patrol Agent Orlando Marrero

“If you come illegally and cross between the ports of entry, you will be processed accordingly and placed in deportation proceedings and returned from the United States to your country of origin.”

Five buses in one day, around 500 people, are being returned to the border port of Nogales, in Sonora, Mexico. Among them families with children. Border authorities said these people did not express a credible fear of returning to their country.

Pedro De Velasco, Kino Border Initiative

“We are witnessing hundreds of families being deported from the United States to Nogales.”

Also in Texas, agents from the Department of Public Safety are carrying out a joint operation with the Border Patrol to stop the transportation of undocumented immigrants across a stretch of the southern border.

Christopher OlivarezDPS Lieutenant in Texas

“This is typically what they do. Once they can load somewhere here, law enforcement attacks them. The smugglers turn around and try to drive toward the river and try to get back to Mexico.”

“This is typically what they do. Once they can load up somewhere here, law enforcement attacks them. The smugglers turn around and try to drive toward the river, which is where we’re headed right now, toward the river. So they will most likely withdraw and try to return to Mexico.

In Arizona, in the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol alone, 7,500 arrests were reported last week. Paula Díaz, Voice of America.