U.S. Border Patrol officials encountered migrants 128,877 times trying to cross the border in February between the legal border crossings. In comparison, U.S. officials stopped migrants 221,693 times between the ports of entry in December.
WASHINGTON — A sharp drop in illegal border crossings along the Southwest border that started in January after the Biden administration announced stricter immigration measures continued into February, the administration announced Wednesday.
U.S. Border Patrol officials encountered migrants 128,877 times trying to cross the border in February between the legal border crossings. That's about the same as January's number — 128,913 — and is the lowest number of encounters per month since February 2021, the agency said. In comparison, U.S. officials stopped migrants 221,693 times between the ports of entry along the Mexican border in December.
At the same time they announced the new policy, the U.S. also agreed to admit up to 30,000 people a month from those four nations on a process called humanitarian parole if they applied online, entered at an airport and found a financial sponsor. According to the CBP figures, 22,755 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans were paroled into the country through that process in February.
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