Border Patrol has encountered nationals from China, Jordan, Turkey and Mauritania crossing the U.S. southern border illegally in May, sources tell Fox News.
Over 3,500 Chinese nationals were encountered crossing the southern border illegally in May, along with hundreds of Jordanian, Turkish and Mauritanian nationals, according to Customs and Border Protection sources who spoke to Fox News. The vast majority were encountered in the San Diego Sector, which has emerged as a top border-crossing point, even as numbers across the border have decreased in recent months.
In the San Diego sector, there were over 770 Jordanians, more than 670 Turkish, and over 500 Mauritanian nationals recorded crossing illegally in the sector in May, giving a glimpse into the global nature of the U.S. migrant crisis, which has expanded beyond the Western Hemisphere. The influx of Jordanian nationals was put in the spotlight last month when two people from Jordan were arrested for attempting to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.
The reality is that some people do indeed try to game the system,' Mayorkas told CBS News. 'That does not speak to everyone whom we encounter, but there is an element of it, and we deal with it accordingly.' The administration has demanded reform from Congress, including the bipartisan Senate bill. It has also pointed to 720,000 removals or returns of illegal immigrants since May 2023, more than in every full fiscal year since 2011.
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