More than 115,000 Mexican families have been encountered by US Border Patrol so far in 2023, almost triple last fiscal year’s count of around 40,000, CBP said.
“When you open legal pathways, folks will take them,” Cris Ramon, a senior policy advisor at We Are Unidos, told the outlet.
The number has only continued to rise over the last four years, with around 24,000 encounters in 2020, which rose to around 29,000 in 2021.With only two months to go in the fiscal year, 2023 has out-lapped last year’s encounters by 285%. Last year saw just under 40,000 families at the southwest end of the border.Coleen Putzel-Kavanaugh told Axios the majority of asylum seekers are giving a notice to appear in court and then released into the country.
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