Border Patrol officials report that at least 2,500 migrants illegally crossed the border along a small section of the New Mexico Border. The migrants crossed the border this fiscal year as part of large groups of Central Americans near Antelope Wells.
In an area that normally only sees a few hundred illegal border crossings per year, officials reported that 25 large groups of migrants crossed the border near Antelope Wells in the first few months of Fiscal Year 2019. The Border Patrol defines a “large group” as more than 100 people.
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