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Roving patrol agents intensify immigration debate
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Nov 13, 2014
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Roving patrol agents intensify immigration debate
So-called roving patrol agents, who sometimes stop people hundreds of miles from the border, is a controversial case in Texas.
Salvadorian immigrant Stefany Marjorie, 8, watches as a U.S. Border Patrol agent records family information on July 24, 2014 in Mission, Texas. Like most of the recent surge of Central American immigrant women and children, her family brought documents, often birth certificates, to prove their nationality to U.S. Border officials. Tens of thousands of immigrant families and unaccompanied minors from Central America have crossed illegally into the United States this year and presented themselves to federal agents, causing a humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. Texas' Rio Grande Valley has become the epicenter of the latest immigrant crisis, as more of them enter illegally from Mexico into that sector than any other stretch of the America's 1,933 mile border with Mexico.
Salvadorian immigrant Stefany Marjorie, 8, watches as a U.S. Border Patrol agent records family information on July 24, 2014 in Mission, Texas.
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So-called roving patrol agents, who sometimes stop people hundreds of miles from the border, is a controversial case in Texas.

In Texas, there is another controversial case that's being closely watched by both sides in the immigration debate.

It's focused on so-called roving patrol agents, who sometimes stop people hundreds of miles from the border.

From the Fronteras Desk, Lorne Matalon reports.