Border Patrol chief says US on track to hit 1M migrant encounters in 6 months as crisis accelerates
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Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz on Tuesday said that the U.S. is currently on track to hit one million migrant encounters so far in Fiscal Year 2022 -- a number that shows that the brewing migrant surge is already outpacing last year’s overwhelming numbers.
Ortiz described a situation on the ground in which Border Patrol is short on staff, is facing additional challenges due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and where "every sector is busier than they were back in ‘21." He also said that agents have encountered migrants from 157 different countries – an indication of the global character of the U.S. border crisis.
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