New Trend Shows Brazilians, Cubans Crossing Southern Border in Droves

Agents on a U.S. Customs and Border Protection boat rescue a woman and child who got stuck attempting to cross the Rio Grande into the United States illegally at Eagle Pass, Texas, on Feb. 16, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The floodgates opened for illegal border crossings in fiscal 2019. 

During that year, Border Patrol apprehended more than 850,000 illegal crossers along the southern border. The largest numbers came from the obvious countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.