EL PASO, Texas — A group of 1,036 migrants that crossed the border illegally El Paso, Texas, is the largest the Border Patrol has ever encountered, the agency said Thursday. The Border Patrol said it has found 180 groups of more than 100 people since October, compared to 13 in the previous 12-month period and two the year before. A Border Patrol surveillance video that President Donald Trump shared on Twitter shows people filing under a chain-link fence to a spot on the U.S. side, where they waited for agents to pick them up. The Border Patrol has encountered 46 groups of more than 100 people in May alone, authorities said. The Border Patrol arrested a group of 430 on Monday in the same area of El Paso as Wednesday’s group.

Source: National Post May 30, 2019 23:19 UTC