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EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Daniel Bermudez’s family had fled Venezuela and was headed to the U.S. to seek asylum when the freight train they were riding through Mexico was stopped by immigration officials. His wife tried to explain that her family had permission to go to the U.S. Instead, they flew her to Mexico’s […]

Mexico has increased immigration enforcement in recent weeks.

In addition to forcing migrants from trains, Mexico also resumed flying and busing them to the southern part of the country and started flying some home to Venezuela.

The Lukeville Port of Entry is open after a monthlong closure due to a higher number of border crossings nearby. The Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector covers wide swaths of open, rugged and often remote desert in southern Arizona. John Modlin, chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, says in the last part of 2023, the number of border apprehensions along this

When migration shifted to the Arizona-Mexico border last year, locals were ready. Border Patrol agents, charities and local officials had been preparing. So far, theyve averted chaos.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 30,000 migrants during the weeks of the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Thousands of people from African nations are flying to Central America and then traveling over land to Mexico and on to the southern border.

Local leaders question if the closure was an effective solution to curve migration.

For the first time ever, migrant encounters along the southern border exceeded 300,000 in a single month, according to a report citing unofficial CBP sources.

(The Center Square)– The Tucson Sector continues to struggle with an influx of migrants as 2024 could mark a new chapter in Arizonas border crisis.