Border Patrol agents set an all-time monthly record in May with nearly 223,000 migrant apprehensions at the southwest border, underscoring the ongoing logistical, humanitarian and political challenges facing Biden at the border.
Border Patrol agents set an all-time monthly record in May with nearly 223,000 migrant apprehensions at the southwest border, according to recently releasedThe data underscores the ongoing logistical, humanitarian and political challenges facing President Biden at the border. Sustained Mexican migration, new flows from farther-flung nationsBy the numbers:
With four months left, border officials have processed migrants 1.5 million times this fiscal year — putting the government on track to surpassMigrants have now been rapidly expelled more than 2 million times since the controversial Title 42 policy was enacted in March 2020, citing COVID-19 public health concerns.has likely contributed to the uptick in people trying multiple times to cross the border.
For example, during the 2019 surge, 64% of encounters at the southwest border were with migrants from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador.Mexican nationals remain the largest single nationality arriving at the border, but people have increasingly fled from more distant home countries like Cuba, Colombia and Nicaragua — and
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