Border Patrol agents discover almost 130 unaccompanied migrant children near US-Mexico border in Arizona
- U.S. Border Patrol Tuscon Sector acting chief agent Sabri Y. Dikman revealed Sunday that agents stopped over 100 unaccompanied migrant children
- The children were among 160 migrants who were encountered by Tucson Station agents near the United States-Mexico border in Arizona
- The sector is third with 16,860 unaccompanied migrant children stopped for unlawfully crossing the United States-Mexico border since October 2020
- Border data for the September, which will close out the current fiscal year, are not due out until next week
Nearly 130 migrant children sent by their parents to venture across the United States-Mexico border were stopped by U.S. Border Patrol agents.
The children were among 160 undocumented migrants encountered by officers in Arizona at the weekend.
The group had crossed the international borderline without legal documents, according to U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector acting chief agent Sabri Y. Dikman.
The large group consisted of foreign nationals from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
More than 100 of the 160 migrants stopped by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the United States-Mexico border in Arizona, according to Sabri Y. Dikman, the acting chief patrol agent of the Tucson Sector
U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector has reported 16,860 unaccompanied migrant children encounters since October 2020, the start of the fiscal year that concluded on September 30. Data for the month of September is due to be released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection within the next week
Dikman, who tweeted a picture of the group Sunday, said all of the migrants were transported to the sector’s Tucson center where they were processed.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection southwestern border data, 1,472,655 migrants, including 130,710 unaccompanied minors, have been encountered by U.S. Border Patrol agents since October 2020 – the start of the current fiscal year which concluded September 30.
U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector detected more than 50 children traveling with out an adult parent or family member when agents stopped 102 migrants on September 17 near San Miguel, Arizona. The Tucson Sector is third among the immigration agency’s nine sectors with 16,860 unaccompanied children stopped for unlawful border crossing
Tucson Station encountered 63 migrants, including 45 children traveling alone, near Sasabe, Arizona, on September 26
Of the 124 migrants stopped by Tucson Sector agents in late September near Sasabe, Arizona, more than 70 were unaccompanied migrant children
U.S. Border Patrol Tuscon Sector agents assigned to Douglas Station stopped a U-Haul truck with 11 migrants, including a child, on October 1
Of the U.S. Border Patrol’s nine sectors, Tucson is fourth with 173,476 interdictions reported during that period.
The Tucson Sector is third with 16,860 unaccompanied migrant children stopped for unlawfully crossing the United States-Mexico border.
Border numbers for the month of September are due to be released within the next week.
DailyMail.com reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for comment.
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