Let's get to our top story this morning.
A 21 year old Honduran nationals now facing a felony
charge after last week's incident when hundreds of migrants stormed
at the border wall.
Well junior Evaristo Benitez was arrested and is facing a
charge of assault on a public servant and he is
now being held in the El Paso County Jail.
And now as we reported last Thursday,
a large group of migrants had breached the concertina wire
at a point between Midway and Fonseca Dr.
along the border highway. The Texas Department of Public Safety
says several migrants from the group had assaulted a service
member.
Now they also say that that migrant group was made-up
of mostly single adult men from Venezuela.
DPS says the wire fencing has now been repaired.
And law enforcement efforts in the area have been increased.
Good news, though, Border Patrol agents say that over the
past few days,
the border has been relatively.
Calm compared to the last few weeks.
However, they do still want to warn that Gate 36
is not a port of entry.
That comes in through this area right here is going
to be charged criminally through our Title 8.
They are going to be processed,
they're going to be detected and then they're going to
be criminally prosecuted for those that come in through this
area illegally.
Well, here's a closer look at the number of arrests
for illegal crossings just last month now,
according to figures from Customs and Border Protection.
Agents arrested more than 140,000 people attempting to enter the
country illegally,
and back in December, agents made more than 249,000 arrests,
a record high That increased tensions over immigration before the
numbers plunged in January.
Now, although those numbers have risen,
they are still among the lowest of Joe Biden's presidency.
All right, I guess. And as of yesterday,
CBS says they have over 2000 migrants.
In custody at this time,
but we're going to have to take a look at
actually those numbers once we get them for February and
obviously.
March after we've seen sort of hundreds of Russian and
we have 2000,
It's so important to keep all this in perspective,
right, Because it's not just here where this is a
problem,
you know, it's happening all up and down the border.
And like we just said,
these are some of the lower numbers of Joe Bidens
presidency.
So while recency bias may think,
Oh my God, it's getting really bad,
we just saw 500 people storm the border.
We have to take in consideration that there is a
bigger picture here and there's lots of things going on
across the border.
So like you said, we'll wait for those numbers.
We are still waiting on them from CBP and hopefully
here in the next few weeks we get those.