U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is beefing up the Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office by giving it eight new prosecutors to handle an increase in illegal immigration cases.

Sessions’ recent announcement comes as a caravan of 1,000 mostly Central American immigrants have been waiting to request asylum at the U.S. border, many of them fleeing violence in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

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