Migrants are being dropped off by the U.S. Border Patrol at a California bus station after a surge in the number of those crossing the Mexican border into the United States in recent months has caused overcrowded housing facilities, Fox News reported on Tuesday.
The San Bernardino Sun reported that some 230 Central American migrants have been left at the city’s bus station or in nearby locations over the past week after they were processed for future appearances before immigration authorities.
The paper reported this has been part of a recent trend, with advocates in neighboring Riverside County estimating that some 4,000 migrants have been helped by the Catholic Church and others since last October after they were similarly abandoned by authorities.
After getting dropped off by the authorities with no resources to cope for themselves, advocates take the migrants to a nearby church, give them food, a place to rest and some money to help them get to their final destination, often to meet up with family members.
This comes as acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders issued a statement over the weekend confirming that the agency is transporting hundreds of families from “severely overcrowded processing facilities to less-crowded stations along the Southwest border.”
He said this has been done “in response to the ongoing humanitarian and border security crisis, which has overwhelmed the entire immigration system.”
Sanders added that the U.S. Border Patrol has more than 16,000 people in custody due to a record 500,000 apprehensions so far this year.
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