Nick Ciletti is a seven-time Emmy award-winning journalist who joined ABC15 in July 2014. Currently, you can catch Nick every weekday anchoring ABC15 Mornings from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.
SAN LUIS, AZ — They are critical to keeping our border safe: 19,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents work around the clock to stop drugs, criminals, and more from entering the country.
Last year, McGoffin became the chief patrol agent for the U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma Sector - at a critical time, when the sector was experiencing several surges in migrant encounters. New Federal budget funds border security, Arizona shelter for migrants Texas' migrant arrest law is back on hold after briefly taking effect Governor Hobbs urging congress to provide more funding for border crisis ‘Come see it for yourself’: life stories from the border city of Douglas "We are constantly looking at any migration patterns going on south of us and in constant contact with our partners in Mexico, talking to them about what they're seeing.
McGoffin pointed out that for the first five months of FY 2024 the Yuma Sector had already seen roughly 27,000 migrant encounters, more than triple what was seen in all of FY 2020 - with seven months left in this Fiscal Year."I think any chief will tell you what concerns them the most is making sure that we have as much capabilities as we can to create operational advantage and be able to detect anything that enters the country, right? That's the part that worries us all the time.
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