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there has been a surge of immigrants illegally crossing into the united states leading up to next month<u+2019>s presidential election. 




cbs news reports dozens of immigrants have been streaming through the streets of mcallen, texas, on a daily basis. they have been taken to a migrant center at sacred heart catholic church where they were released by border patrol, with ankle monitors, while they file for asylum. 




agent chris cabrera told cbs news that they<u+2019>ve been seeing a spike in immigrants crossing the u.s.-mexico border illegally, thanks in part to the election. 




<u+201c>the smugglers are telling them if hillary [clinton] gets elected, that there<u+2019>ll be some sort of amnesty, that they need to get here by a certain date,<u+201d> cabrera said. <u+201c>they<u+2019>re also being told that if [donald] trump gets elected, there<u+2019>s going to be some magical wall that pops up overnight and once that wall gets up, nobody will ever get in again.<u+201d> 




cabrera added that they<u+2019>ve encountered up to 1,000 immigrants along mcallen<u+2019>s stretch of the border some days.
spike in immigrants illegally crossing into u.s. ahead of election
howard portnoy