Migrant encounters at southern border surpass 21,000 in 72 hours, CBP sources say
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There have been more than 21,000 migrant encounters at the U.S. southern border since Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources told Fox News.
Griff Jenkins currently serves as a Washington-based correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) and as a co-anchor of FOX News Live. He joined the network in 2003 as a radio producer and associate producer for War Stories with Oliver North.
Leading the encounters from Friday to Sunday was the Tucson sector in Arizona with more than 5,400, while the San Diego sector in California was the second busiest with more than 3,600, per the sources.
The increased numbers in Arizona and California appear to show that illegal crossing traffic is shifting away from Texas, where the Rio Grande Valley sector near Brownsville and the Del Rio sector near Eagle Pass saw among the lowest encounters, averaging 300 to 350 per day since Friday.
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