"Border Patrol Overwhelmed"

This is a picture taken recently at the El Paso, Texas Point of Entry at the southern U.S. Border with Mexico.

Border Patrol agents report 2,600 people in one 24 hour period there.

Agents were said to be brought in from the field to handle the influx.

"Border Patrol was overwhelmed"

on site at El Paso Port of Entry

According to the Los Angles Times, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said this week that many migrants are ill when they arrive.

“We are doing everything we can to simply avoid a tragedy in a CBP facility,” said McAleenan.

Read more here.

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