The Latest on the large numbers of immigrants at the southern border(all times local):6:40 p.m.Border officials in Texas say a group of 116 Africans was arrested Thursday after wading through the Rio Grande to enter the United States. This was the first large group that agents in the Del Rio sector have arrested, although big groups have been showing up every day in other areas of the southern border. Agents have encountered 182 large groups, or those with more than 100 people, since October. ________2:12 p.m.U.S. authorities are overstretched and overwhelmed by an unprecedented surge of Central American families arriving at the southern border. On Wednesday, for example, Border Patrol agents near downtown El Paso, Texas, encountered a group of 1,036 migrants who had entered the country illegally — the biggest cluster the agency has ever seen.

Source: Fox News May 31, 2019 23:37 UTC