June 7, 2014:This photo shows the entrance to the U. S. Border Patrol facility in Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff)

The Border Patrol shelved plans to fly nearly 300 Central American illegal immigrants to California from Texas late Sunday.

Paul Beeson, chief of the Border Patrol’s San Diego sector, had told the Associated Press Saturday that two flights, each carrying approximately 140 passengers, would fly to San Diego and El Centro, approximately 100 miles east. Beeson also told AP that the flights would continue every three days and mainly carry families with children.

On Sunday, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokesman told the AP that the flights would not proceed as scheduled Monday, but did not give a reason. Ralph DeSio said that Beeson’s statements were accurate at the time he made them.

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