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U.S. Border Patrol agents came nether occurrence portion moving connected the confederate borderline from gunmen operating wrong Mexico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed to Fox News that shots were fired from the Mexican broadside of the El Paso, Texas assemblage connected Wednesday afternoon.
The CBP said that agents were progressive successful a "use of unit incidental portion responding to reports of shots fired adjacent the borderline successful the Ysleta Station country of responsibility successful Texas."
Sources confirmed that CBP agents returned fire.
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Border Patrol agents person been fired upon successful a bid of targeted attacks this month, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection bureau said. (Getty Images)
The bureau said that nary agents were injured during the incidental and that an probe is underway.
"There are nary reported injuries astatine this time," the CBP said successful a statement. "The incidental is nether reappraisal by Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility."
New sections of the alloy bollard-style borderline wall, comprising superior and secondary barriers, stands on the US-Mexico borderline betwixt San Diego and Tijuana (L) during a circuit with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) connected May 10, 2021 successful the Otay Mesa country of San Diego County, California. ((Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images))
The shocking incidental is not the archetypal clip agents person travel nether occurrence during a patrol.
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The CBP said that this was the 2nd incidental successful caller weeks.
A radical of implicit 100 migrants attempting to participate the US illegally unreserved a borderline partition Thursday, March 21, 2024. (James Breeden for New York Post / Mega)
The incidental comes arsenic tens of thousands of illegal immigrants person evaded Border Patrol truthful acold this fiscal year.
According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources, determination person been 175,000 "known getaways," meaning amerciable immigrants who person evaded Border Patrol agents but person been picked up by different forms of surveillance but not apprehended, since the fiscal twelvemonth began successful October.
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That means determination person been an mean of astir 800 gotaways each time astatine the border.
Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
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