Officials closed the border crossing at Eagle Pass, TX to vehicles Monday and reduced the number of people crossing through the port of entry at Lukeville, in a remote stretch of Sonoran Desert in Arizona.
Officials said U.S. Customs and Border Protection is adapting to keep pace with the rapidly shifting routes used by migrants trying to enter the country illegally. Eagle Pass had been the most heavily traveled illegal immigrant corridor along America’s southern border with Mexico in the last year, but undocumented traffic in Lukeville has picked up in recent months demanding more law enforcement officers and allowing for fewer resources to process legal crossings.
CBP said it is closing one of two bridges in Eagle Pass, a town of about 30,000 people southwest of San Antonio. Lukeville is in the Border Patrol’s Tucson, AZ sector, which was by far the busiest of nine sectors along the U.S.-Mexico border last month for attempted illegal crossings.
“The U.S. is continuing to see increased levels of migrant encounters at the Southwest Border, fueled by smugglers peddling disinformation to prey on vulnerable individuals and encourage migration,” Customs and Border Protection said in a statement.”
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