The mark would be the highest through the first six months of a fiscal year in at least two decades and would put the US on pace to surpass the 1.7 million encounters in all of 2021.
“Probably in the next two or three days we’ll get over a million encounters or apprehensions along the southwest border,” Chief Raul Ortiz said at the Border Security Expo in San Antonio, Tx., according to Fox News.
Border Patrol Chief Raul L. Ortiz said that they would hit a million encounters “in the next two or three days.”The controversial Title 42 policy has allowed the US to keep asylum seekers on the Mexico side of the border while their cases are heard. COVID-19 rates have been plunging among migrants crossing the border, according to the Associated Press, which cited results from several major corridors.
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