U.S. Border Patrol Agents Grapple With Sudden Surge of Central American Migrants
*Migrants from Central America are fearful that Donald Trump will seal the border, so they’re coming in larger numbers to beat what they think is inevitable – and there isn’t enough room to detain them. VL
By and David Douglas, NBC News (4 minute read) 
MCALLEN, Texas — Apprehensions on the Southwest border, along the Rio Grande, are rising. There were 46,195 in October — that was almost 20,000 more than the same month two years ago and the largest spike since the massive surge of unaccompanied minors during the summer of 2014.
[Agent Marlene] Castro said the biggest difference this time around is that the Border Patrol is better equipped to deal with the influx. A new processing center has the capacity to hold 1,000 migrants at a time. In November, the federal government even sent 150 more border patrol agents to the McAllen area in the southern tip of Texas.Read more stories like this on NewsTaco. >>
“Some people sell everything they own to make the trip over here,” Castro said. “They run the risk — the women, of getting raped; the men, of being robbed — and they still come over here.”
And if the flow seems never-ending, so does the debate over how best to secure the border.
[Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Flickr]
