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This is OnPoint, a Magna Chakrabardi.

The southwestern Texas city of Del Rio sits on the banks of the Rio Grande.

It's a border town and until recently a relatively quiet one.

But from 2007 to 2018,

US Customs and Border Protection reported only about 20,000 border encounters each year at the Del Rio sector.

Border Patrol defines an encounter as an apprehension or determination of inadmissibility of a non-US citizen.

And then, in 2019,

the number of illegal border crossings in Del Rio jumped dramatically to 57,000.

In 2021, it was up to 259,000 encounters.

And in 2022, that number stood at 480,000.

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