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Arrests by the Border Patrol in the Yuma sector hit nearly 14,000 in May, when the new policy took effect there. By October, arrests had dropped 94%, to less than 800, and have stayed there since, making Yuma the second-slowest of the agency’s nine sectors on the Mexican border.
Anthony Porvaznik, chief of the Border Patrol’s Yuma sector, told the AP these new Migration Protection Protocols have been a huge deterrent, based on agents’ interviews with people arrested. “Their whole goal was to be released into the United States, and once that was taken off the shelf for them … then that really diminished the amount of traffic that came through here.”
In the first 10 months since the policy took effect in San Diego, more than 55,000 asylum-seekers were returned to Mexico to wait for hearings.
The immigrants came from more than three dozen countries, but nearly two-thirds were Guatemalan or Honduran, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
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