Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
About 150 Border Patrol agents are being sent to South Texas to help out authorities who are overwhelmed by a spike in illegal immigration from Central America, the Statesman reports.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made the announcement on his third trip to the Border Patrol’s McAllen station in southernmost Texas in the last month and a half.
The station has been inundated by tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who have been arrested since October.
What remains unclear is whether the new agents are temporary or permanent.
Johnson said again that he children won’t be invited to stay in the U.S., saying “journey is not safe.”
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