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The agency says it deployed many of its officers assigned to the port of entry to help Border Patrol agents apprehend and process asylum-seeking migrants along the southern border.
At least 100,000 vetted drivers will have a third option for their daily commute between El Paso and Juarez, Mexico, beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday.
Once in shelter, they can access a county clinic exclusively for migrants. But the currently 3,300 people in limbo at police stations and airports must rely on a mishmash of volunteers and social service groups that provide food, clothes and medicine.
Part of Robert Vivar's job is to be on the north side of the border to welcome deported veterans as they return to the U.S. via the San Ysidro Port of Entry, something he has been doing more of lately.
Four men and two women who allegedly smuggled migrants from Juarez, Mexico, through storm drains into El Paso, Texas, have been charged in Mexico for human trafficking and money laundering.