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This port of entry and turning themselves in. >> reporter: in a single day, more than 1,000 migrants did just that and showed up in el paso for processing. about 250 took agents by surprise back in january when they arrived in the middle of the night at a remote border crossing in neighboring antelope wells, new mexico. then a few weeks later at a different new mexico crossing, roughly 300 migrants came to this rural station seeking asylum. border patrol considers a group to be 100 or more people. thus far 70 groups have been apprehended as opposed to 13 for the same period last year. in dalla...

Changed. >> historically for decades, most of the people who have come to the border were mexican adults, mostly mexican men. >> now they are largely women and children from central american countries. and they are traveling together more frequently. >> these are groups, large groups, at least 27 of more than 100 people, each group walking around this port of entry and turning themselves in to agents. >> in a single day more than a thousand migrants did just that and showed up in el paso for processing. about 250 took agents by surprise back in january when they arrived in the middle of the ni...