McAllen mayor says number of asylum seekers drops dramatically
MCALLEN, Texas — For the first time ever, authorities made more than two million immigration arrests along the southern border in the fiscal year t...
MCALLEN, Texas — For the first time ever, authorities made more than two million immigration arrests along the southern border in the fiscal year that just ended. In August alone, U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained nearly 204,000 migrants crossing from Mexico. While Governor Greg Abbott says it's a burden on state resources, McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos says his city isn't spending any extra dollars on the issue. 'What is has changed for us, it's kind of beneficial, a lot of the asylum seekers, the numbers have gone down drastically for us, from last year 1,500 a day to now maybe 100 plus.