While migrant apprehensions have swelled for three straight months to record highs, Border Patrol agents say that the official figure only represents half the story. In May there were a record 239,416 border apprehensions, a figure which includes some who try to cross multiple times, and 177,793 unique individuals who were apprehended. Agent Chris Cabrera, a spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council for the Rio Grande Valley, and agent Juan Hernandez, a union rep, told DailyMail.com in a ride-along trip to the Rio Grande Valley border sector that oftentimes nearly double that number actually attempt to cross the border.
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