Migrants - most of them Brazilian, Venezuelan or Cuban - were mired in Border Patrol holding facilities in Yuma, Arizona, over the weekend, according to the sheriff, who said he has never seen such unruliness.
Video shows long streams of migrants walking around the border wall and surrendering to authorities.
Sheriff Wilmot said he can drive a 20-mile stretch of the border and see only a handful of agents because "Everybody else is busy processing" the thousands of migrants in custody.
On Sept. 22 alone, the Border Patrol in Yuma apprehended 1,000 people.
The 3,400 migrants were in custody, and Border Patrol said it was processing and turning them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"Responding to changing migration patterns is not new to CBP and the Border Patrol, and Yuma Sector continues to redirect manpower as traffic patterns change," the agency told The Washington Times.
In August, the latest month with full numbers, nearly 60,000 - more than 30% - of the migrants nabbed by Border Patrol agents along the Mexico boundary were from outside the traditional sending nations.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/28/arizona-border-flares-new-illegal-immigration-hot-/
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