Illegal border crossings have declined in areas of the Tucson Sector, but they haven’t stopped.
The Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Kristie Canegallo came to the Tucson Sector in January on the heels of a record December at the border, when 80,000 people were apprehended.
“I traveled down to Tucson to hear from our workforce,” Canegallo said.
Canegallo met with Border Patrol agents, CBP officers, and local leaders like Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and Nogales Mayor Jorge Maldonado.
DHS “This trip was the latest in a series of trips that I’ve been doing to make sure we are providing our DHS workforce and the communities we serve, in this instance Arizonans, the support that they need,” Canegallo said.
On the morning of February 1 in Lukeville, the challenges the DHS workforce and Arizona communities are facing is still evident.
More than 100 migrants waited at the border wall for Border Patrol to come and arrest them.
One man from Ecuador said it was dangerous to get to the U.S., but not hard to find out how to cross the border.