Here DailyMail.com investigates the four migrant crossing spots that have caused the most havoc for Border Patrol agents - and how trends in each sector have shifted.
REVEALED: The busiest border flashpoints being flooded by migrants - as agents desperately try to track down thousands of 'gotaways'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-13201617/The-busiest-border-flashpoints-flooded-migrants-agents-desperately-try-track-thousands-gotaways.html
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The top migrant crossing spots in the nation are in Arizona, Texas, California
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Crossings are dropping in Lone Star State, while ramping up in California
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In El Paso, Border Patrol is holding migrants in custody longer, making it easier to the deport them
America is facing the 'worst border security crisis' in its history - with states from Texas to New York close to their breaking points amid a surge in migrant crossings. But the busiest border flashpoints can change overnight - and as fast as one area is contained, a new 'ground zero' crops up.
Since the beginning of the year, Texas hot zones that had been the epicenters of the border crisis, have quieted down - with traffic instead ramping up in California and Arizona.
>In the Tucson section, the border wall built by the US government ends where Native American reservation begins. The Tohono Oʼodham Nation has not allowed a barrier to be built on its land, allowing migrants easy entry into the country. On this reservation, the media is not allowed either (photo caption)
Migrants who are being smuggled into the country and have no intention of being caught often step over a low fence to get into the US through that land.
'The (Tohono Oʼodham) reservation is the #1 area for got aways,' Border Patrol union vice president Art Del Cueto explained.