Latest situation at San Diego, where migrants used more during first week of Trump administration

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San Diego, the busiest corridor for illegal border crossings over much of the last year, has seen traffic slow dramatically.

According to Associated Press agents were making 1,500 arrests a day in April. Last week, they made less than 250 arrests a day.

Instead of quickly releasing asylum-seekers who turned themselves in, Border Patrol agents are spending their shifts trying to find people who want to elude capture.

The Associated Press spent six hours with the Border Patrol and didn’t encounter any migrants until the last half hour. The Border Patrol scanner was quiet for long stretches.

Finally, three Chinese men and one Malaysian men made their way through a gap in the border wall and turned themselves in to agents

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