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Growing up on ranches, Tijerina said he always encountered people crossing the border illegally onto their property and “for the most part, almost all of them do not mean us any harm.”
In the Laredo region, like all of the U.S. southern border, Border Patrol agents encountered significantly more people illegally crossing the border last year, according. Immigration officials reported more than twice as many encounters in the region in fiscal year 2021 versus 2020. But the increase was nowhere near the uptick seen in the Del Rio sector, where Abbott’s arrests first began, which saw more than six times as many encounters during the same time in a less populous region.
As far as the constitutional concerns raised by Abbott’s trespassing arrests, Tijerina said he believed the operation was largely about securing the border, but acknowledged there will likely be challenges ahead.
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