U.S. Border Patrol officials arrested at least 91,000 migrants who crossed the border as part of a family group, according to preliminary data obtained by the Washington Post – beating the pr…
– beating the previous one-month record of 84,486 migrant families arrested in May 2019, under the Trump administration.
Officials also saw a marked increase in the number of unaccompanied minors crossing into the country.have welded open 114 massive gates along the Arizona border The August tally brings the number of “family member units” surrendering at the border over the fiscal year to more than half a million people, another recordMigrant families accounted for the largest demographic group crossing the border in August, surpassing single adults for the first time since President Joe Biden took office in 2020.
But Heeter said that the government also ramped up deportation flights carrying families in August, and since May has repatriated more than 17,000 parents and children. The program, known as parole, allows the migrants to fly into the country rather than cross at the border. But fewer than 100 family members have been deported under that program, CBS reported, as a majority of the migrants are released into the United States, where they are allowed to live and work while their humanitarian claims are processed in the judicial system.
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