Texas Border Patrol agents reported a spike in arrests of convicted sex offenders among a slew of apprehensions announced Wednesday.
Since the beginning of fiscal year 2021, Del Rio authorities have nabbed 95 border crossers previously found guilty of sex crimes, equating to a 3,166% increase compared to numbers from the previous year.
The shocking figures were included in a bulletin, which stated that agents caught 10 convicted sex offenders who illegally entered the U.S. from May 17 to May 24. Among them were Mexican nationals who had been found guilty of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, forcible sexual abuse, sexual assault of a child under 14, sexual assault of a child, sexual assault, and sexual conduct with a person under 13.
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Two Honduran nationals were arrested in the one-week period as well. The pair had a litany of convictions, including statutory rape and second-degree sexual assault of a child.
“The majority of these criminals were apprehended in our sector’s most remote areas, attempting to avoid detection by crossing far from populated areas,“ Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin Skero said in a statement.
On Wednesday, Border Patrol agents announced that an additional three convicted sex offenders were put behind bars between Saturday and Tuesday. The first of the trio was grabbed early Saturday morning after he was encountered illegally entering the country, while the second was found on Sunday evening inside a car that was “being used for human smuggling.”
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The third found himself behind bars on Tuesday morning. All three were previously removed from the country by a judge.
President Joe Biden has faced bipartisan backlash for his handling of the crisis on the southern border. In April, agents witnessed more than 178,000 attempted illegal crossings, dwarfing previous numbers. A wave of unaccompanied migrant children has overwhelmed those in Biden’s cohort as the federal government scrambles to open new facilities to house the surge.
