(13 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
McAllen, Texas – 13 February 2025
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1. Mid of a border patrol agent stands beside a van near the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border.
2. Mid of border patrol agent arrives trail that human smuggling groups use near the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border.
3. Mid of a border patrol agent walks along a trail littered with bracelets used by human smuggling groups near the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rod Kise, CBP Public Affairs Officer:
"The activity has gone down. I mean, it had been down for a while. It has dropped some. And there’s many different reasons for that. I mean, it can be the the the consequence delivery that that is happening. You know, the message gets back to the the people in their countries. It could be the Mexican, Mexican, you know, their border patrol, the army in them, you know, strengthening their forces and doing more, being more vigilant on their border to southern border, and it looks like now they’re going to start the northern border as well."
5. Various of border patrol agents patrol along the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Texas border.
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rod Kise, CBP Public Affairs Officer:
"The process really hasn’t changed. I mean, it’s, you know, Title 8 has been around for decades, but it seems just there’s more attention on it right now of course, you know, deportations have happened, I mean, for many decades. But the processes, once they’re apprehended, of course, biometrics are ran on them to see if they’ve either had reciprocity because they’ve been caught crossing before or maybe if they do have a criminal background or have warrants either in the United States or in their home country. And so there’s no easy button for how they’re processed. Everyone’s processed according to their immigration status."
7. Mid of gunboat patrol along the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Texas border.
8. Various of border patrol agents patrol along the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Texas border.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rod Kise, CBP Public Affairs Officer:
"The RGV (Rio Grande Valley) has been the epicenter for alien activity for, it was for eight, nine years. And then everything changed and went to the Del Rio sector and that’s when we saw thousands of people under the bridge out there. And after that it switched towards El Paso and after that switched to Tucson. And so as the shifts are, they happen. And the shifts, we don’t control the shifts. The cartels control the shift of where they’re going to start sending them. You know, these aliens have they don’t have any say in where they cross. You know, they’ve crossed wherever the smugglers tell them across."
10. Mid of ducks near the border patrol boat ramp at the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Texas border.
11. Mid of border patrol agents patrol along the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Texas border.
STORYLINE:
Border Patrol agents scoured the Rio Grande river early Thursday on the lookout for migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico.
The Associated Press was invited to join the agents and witness the ongoing efforts to seal the border to migrants entering illegally.
South Texas was the busiest corridor for illegal crossings from 2013 to 2022. It became one of the quieter ones well before President Donald Trump took office last month and now it is even quieter, as witnessed by The Associated Press.
Since President Donald Trump took office, immigrants in the U.S. illegally have changed their travel patterns and the places they go to, out of fear they could be deported.
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