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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —
U.S. Border Patrol will begin transporting more than 1,000 migrants a month to South Florida -- split between Palm Beach and Broward counties -- from the southern border within two weeks, according to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and sheriffs from both counties.
"Unlawful arrivals are overwhelming our system," Rubio tweeted. "Now I have just been informed by Palm Beach sheriff that starting next week Border Patrol will begin transporting 500 migrants a month from border to Broward & Palm Beach Florida & releasing them pending an asylum hearing."
"To take this type of influx of illegal immigrants from another location and to bring them to Palm Beach County is not only a public safety problem, because we don't what know the backgrounds on these people are, we don't know what documentation the Border Patrol has to identify who they are or what their criminal background is, if any. And they're just going to walk into the community."
Trump has threatened people who cross the border seeking asylum to be transported to communities that are considered immigrant friendly.
Broward County is not a "sanctuary city" and the Florida Senate passed a bill this year banning such communities in the state. "Sanctuary cities" protect undocumented immigrants from deportation or prosecution, despite federal immigration law.
"The Trump administration provided no information about this alleged proposal to members of Congress representing Broward or Palm Beach counties," U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat, said in a statement. "My colleagues and I representing Broward County and Palm Beach County have requested more information from DHS.”