Border guards arrested nearly 200 migrants at the border, and more than half of unaccompanied children

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US Border Patrol officers in Arizona arrested nearly 200 illegal immigrants near the Mexican border on Wednesday, finding that more than half of them were unaccompanied children.

Agents in the Tucson border strip encountered a group of 197 illegal immigrants shortly after 7 a.m. near San Miguel, a few miles north of the US-Mexico border.

Three-quarters of the migrants were unaccompanied children. (CBP)

The agents determined that 147 children were unaccompanied and that most of them came from Guatemala.

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A US Customs and Border Protection spokesperson told Fox News that members of the group were taken to a CBP processing facility where they were fed, medically examined and processed to switch custody to the Department of Homeland Security’s Department of Health and Human Services.

The confrontation came just two days after Border Patrol agents met another group of illegal immigrants — this time, 48 — near Sasabi, Arizona, 39 of whom are juveniles, ages 5 to 17. More than half of them were from Guatemala.

While illegal border crossings have increased on a large scale since Biden took office, the Tucson Sector Patrol encountered more than 13,600 unaccompanied children in fiscal year 2021 — an 189% increase from 2020.

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CBP says the vast majority of border concerns are unaccompanied children who come from the “Northern Triangle” countries – Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

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