Border Agents Freed Up for Patrol as Asylum Changes Take Effect

Remain in Mexico policy sharply reduced family crossings, which were pulling agents into managing transport, housing, and child care

Border Patrol agent Jose Garibay stands next to part of the 30-foot high, 22-mile new fence on the U.S–Mexico border east of San Luis in Yuma, Ariz., on Nov. 27, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

YUMA, Ariz.—Border agents in Yuma are back on patrol after months of being inundated with floods of illegal immigrants that peaked in May.

The illegal traffic in the Yuma sector almost tripled in fiscal 2019 with more than 68,000 aliens apprehended. Agents arrested some 450 people per day in May.