DHS continues surging personnel to border despite big decline in illegal crossings

The Department of Homeland Security has continued to surge hundreds of supplemental personnel to the border even as the number of people who illegally crossed and presented at ports of entry in June declined dramatically.

Manuel Padilla, chief of the department’s Interagency Border Emergency Cell, told the Washington Examiner in a recent interview 500 DHS personnel were sent to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas; El Paso, Texas; and Yuma, Arizona, to assist Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the height of the deployments this spring.