Former President Donald Trump will travel to Arizona on Thursday morning to tour the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump campaign announced over the weekend.
Trump will visit the border in Cochise County, which is part of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Tucson Sector.
So far in Fiscal Year 2024, the Tucson Sector has experienced 440,598 total migrant encounters, a 60.0 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2023’s encounters.
Last week alone, the U.S. Border Patrol working in the Tucson Sector apprehended 2,600 migrants, handled 199 federal criminal cases, stopped 27 human smuggling incidents, rescued 17 migrants in distress, intercepted narcotics on 7 separate occasions, and made four “significant” arrests.
