Number of migrants crossing border is dropping, in part due to US agents helping nab human smugglers

Source: NBC News Arrests of undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. southern border have fallen by nearly 14 percent from an all-time high in May, driven in part by an increase in U.S.-assisted arrests of smugglers in Central America, far from U.S. soil, according to internal briefing materials obtained by NBC News. Agents from Customs and Border Protection, as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcements Homeland Security Investigations, some of them in Central American countries, were responsible,
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