Border Official: ‘We Are Doing Everything We Can to Simply Avoid a Tragedy’

A Border Patrol agent apprehends illegal aliens who have just crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into Penitas, Texas, on March 21, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—Huge groups of Central Americans have brought U.S. border security to its knees, as an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants will overwhelm the system this month.

Border Patrol agents arrested 3,974 illegal aliens along the southwest border on March 19 alone.