On May 23, I posted "Other than Mexicans", about the large numbers of non-Mexicans who are basically surrendering to the Border Patrol in Texas, knowing that they'll be released into the U.S. due to lack of detention space. Since that time, a few additional news reports have appeared.

The latest is a long piece from Copley News Service entitled "Loophole to America". It concentrates on Brazilians, and it includes a chart showing 260 apprehensions of Brazilians in 1995 and 22,000 in the first nine months of this fiscal year.

On May 30, Reuters offered "Non-Mexican immigrants swamp Texas border city". The author is Tim Gaynor, who was last mentioned here in relation to a biased report he wrote about the Minuteman Project. His latest report is not that bad.

And, at least in Brownsville, the tide appears to be turning a bit. From "OTMs will now be put in jail or deported" (same story here under a different title):

...U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio made a statement Thursday [to seven] Central Americans who were caught this week crossing the Rio Grande near Brownsville.

"I want you to tell all your friends in Honduras that if they come through Brownsville, Texas, they will not be paroled into the system and they will be put in jail and deported," Recio told Vasquez in open court as he handed him a jail sentence that could keep him here until space opens at an immigration facility and he could be deported...