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‘Inadmissible’ Aliens Are Walking Through Border Cracks

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:15:22 +0000

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it expelled 104,907 illegal aliens who were “encountered” (the Biden administration’s new term for “apprehended”) at the southern border in June. Though that number sounds impressive, it falls far short of the record 188,829 migrant “encounters” during the month, and suggests many, if not all, of the remaining 83,922 illegal [...]

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New Honduran Migrant Caravan Forms: Wasn’t This Predictable?

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:40:11 +0000

In what might be a glimpse of things to come, a new migrant caravan has formed in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro de Sula and, according to its participants, is bound for the U.S. Migrants are claiming that they are fleeing the destruction unleashed by two hurricanes on several Northern Triangle countries, but [...]

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Fewer Border Arrests Free Up CBP For More Fentanyl Seizures

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:26:50 +0000

Apprehensions of illegal aliens along America’s southern border during fiscal 2020 ran well below last year’s total, but the numbers are trending back up. COVID-19 sharply reduced illegal border crossings in April and May. Apprehensions totaled 40,380 for those two months, compared with 253,531 during the same period in 2019. Since then, encounters with U.S. [...]

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Apprehensions Rise While Border Patrol Morale Crashes

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:13:52 +0000

Border apprehensions continued their steady upward trend in July, with more than 40,000 illegal aliens apprehended – up more than 20 percent from June apprehension numbers and more than double those of April. Single adults from Mexico accounted for nearly 90 percent of the apprehensions, a dramatic change from roughly a year ago when the [...]

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Apprehensions at the Border Are Up, Yet Remain Well Below 2019’s Historic High

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:37:20 +0000

Illegal alien apprehensions along America’s southwest border continue to climb for the second month in a row, with June apprehensions exceeding 32,000, more than double those of April. While this is a concerning trend, these levels are well below those of a last year, when in June 2019, apprehensions topped more than 104,000. Emergency [...]

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Border Arrests on Record-Setting Pace in Rio Grande Valley

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 20:25:59 +0000

Apprehensions of illegal border crossers are on pace to top 240,000 in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) this year. On just one day, Feb. 27, Border Patrol agents arrested more than 1,300 people — a five-year record. “A majority of the arrests are family units and unaccompanied children from Central and South America, which greatly impact [...]

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