AU.S. Border Patrol agent was shot at by a person in Mexico on Thursday near San Elizario, according to the federal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency.
The Context
Irregular immigration has become a top political issue over the past few years, with 9.8 million migrant encounters recorded between October 2019 and January 2024, according to figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. On April 12, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that 507,200 suspected undocumented migrants had been detained in his state since 2021 when he launched Operation Lone Star to combat illegal crossings.
A poll conducted on April 11 exclusively for Newsweek found just 20 percent of eligible American voters think the U.S. has "control over its borders," against 63 percent who disagree, with another 13 percent answering "don't know." Notably, those who answered no included 53 percent of those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and a plurality in all of the age groups surveyed.
