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By Julia Preston, Apr. 10, 2014, The New York Times
HIDALGO, Tex. — Border Patrol agents in olive uniforms stood
in broad daylight on the banks of the Rio Grande, while on the Mexican side
smugglers pulled up in vans and unloaded illegal migrants.
The agents were clearly visible on that recent afternoon,
but the migrants were undeterred. Mainly women and children, 45 in all, they
crossed the narrow river on the smugglers’ rafts, scrambled up the bluff and
turned themselves in, signaling a growing challenge for the immigration
authorities.
After six years of steep declines across the Southwest,
illegal crossings have soared in South Texas while remaining low elsewhere. The
Border Patrol made more than 90,700 apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley in
the past six months, a 69 percent increase over last year.
The migrants are no longer primarily Mexican laborers.
Instead they are Central Americans, including many families with small children
and youngsters without their parents, who risk a danger-filled journey across
Mexico. Driven out by deepening poverty but also by rampant gang violence,
increasing numbers of migrants caught here seek asylum, setting off lengthy
legal procedures to determine whether they qualify.
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