MISSION, Texas — The call went out on Border Patrol radios just before sundown one day last week: 31 immigrants spotted illegally crossing the Rio Grande on a raft. No sooner had the migrants been found hiding in the mesquite brush than another report came in: A woman and boy were walking up the riverbank.
Rio Grande Valley is locus of border-crossing crisis
Immigrants arriving at rate of more than 35,000 a month
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