February saw the highest number of migrant encounters ever recorded at the southern border in that calendar month, according to new CBP data released Friday.
The number of migrant encounters at the southern border for February hit a new high for the month this year, Customs and Border Protection figures released on Friday reveal, reversing a sharp drop in numbers in January. There were 189,922 migrant encounters along the border in February. That’s higher than the 156,000 in the same month in 2023. The highest it had been for February was in 2022 when numbers reached 166,010.
Numbers at the southern border had dropped from a record 302,000 in December to a relatively low 176,204 in January but had not continued to decline in February. The data show there have now been 70 people on the FBI terror watchlist arrested by Border Patrol in fiscal year 2024 so far, which began Oct. 1.
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