Article snippet: During a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Rodolfo Karisch told lawmakers illegal immigration levels are currently so high that the average number of border crossers and illegal aliens arriving every week — at the Rio Grande Valley Sector, alone — is equivalent to the size of a migrant caravan. “Much media attention has focused on caravans from Central America but the fact is that the [Rio Grande Valley Sector] is receiving caravan-equivalent numbers of migrants every seven days,” Karisch said. Karisch detailed how the Rio Grande Valley Sector, alone, is set to far outpace illegal immigration levels from previous years: Karisch hit back at some Republican and mostly all Democrat lawmakers who have claimed that there is no crisis occurring at the southern border in terms of illegal immigration and asylum fraud. “In my 30 years as an agent, I have never witnessed the conditions we are currently facing on the southwest border,” Karisch said. “This is not a manufactured crisis created by those of us who live and work in the border area. Border Patrol continues to apprehend record numbers who purposefully violate U.S. immigration laws.” As Breitbart News most recently reported, more than 92,000 border crossers and illegal aliens were apprehended at the southern border last month. In this fiscal year, alone, federal immigration officials have encountered more than 385,000 border crossers and illegal... Link to the full article to read more