Border Patrol Reports a Surge of Africans Trying to Illegally Cross the Border

Border Patrol is reporting “a dramatic rise” in the number of African migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in recent days.

African asylum seekers, who entered Israel illegally via Egypt, lean at the fence of the Holot detention center in Israel's southern Negev Desert, on Feb. 17, 2014, as they join other migrants who came to protest outside the detention facility. Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

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Border Patrol is reporting “a dramatic rise” in the number of African migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in recent days.