Around 5,000 migrants were in Border Patrol custody in the Rio Grande Valley as of July 19, Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar said, My RGV reported. The number of migrants in custody rose to over-capacity levels around July 14, when some 3,500 people were reportedly detained in the area.
The number of encounters was widely expected to decrease at the beginning of summer, My RGV reported.
Border officials encountered nearly 190,000 migrants in June, up from around 180,000 in May, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Around 58% of migrants encountered were rapidly expelled under the Trump-era public health order Title 42, while thousands of others were taken to shelters or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, according to My RGV.
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