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Federal officials said 185 migrants, mostly unaccompanied children, recently surrendered to border agents in San Miguel and Three Points, near Tucson.
Early Thursday, 95 migrants surrendered to Border Patrol agents after crossing the U.S. border near San Miguel, John Mennell, supervisory public affairs specialist for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, confirmed to The Republic.
According to a tweet from John Modlin, interim chief patrol agent for the agency, 91 were unaccompanied migrant children primarily from Guatemala, he said.
A day earlier, 90 migrants surrendered to agents from the Three Points Station, near Tucson. More than half of them were unaccompanied children from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, according to the tweet by Modlin.
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