The Biden administration is bracing for an unprecedented surge of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border this spring and summer, as officials weigh whether to lift a pandemic-era policy allowing Border Patrol to turn away migrants seeking asylum
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is bracing for an unprecedented surge of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border this spring and summer, as officials weigh whether to lift a pandemic-era policy allowing Border Patrol agents to turn away migrants seeking asylum.
The number of migrants crossing the southern border has increased again in recent weeks to the crushing levels seen last summer that overwhelmed Border Patrol stations as well as a network of border shelters that care for migrants if they are released from Border Patrol custody. Officials are projecting that crossings will rise even more as the weather improves and political instability and economic hardship roil parts of Latin America, according to current and former administration officials.
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