El Paso Border Control Agents Discover 8 Illegal Aliens Posing as Unaccompanied Minors to Avoid Expulsion

A Border Patrol agent checks an illegal immigrant wearing two wristbands that Mexican cartels have been using to control human smuggling into the United States, near Penitas, Texas, on March 15, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Multiple illegal aliens posing as unaccompanied minors while in custody have been identified by U.S. Border Patrol Agents in El Paso, Texas in the past week, according to officials.

Three adults who were part of a group of 13 migrants encountered by agents of El Paso Station on Aug. 16 were discovered by agents at the El Paso Sector Central Processing Center (CPC) to be posing as minors.