U.S. Customs and Border Protection has a record breaking number of illegal immigrant apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border ever recorded in the last year, as per a report.
At this point, a not yet published CBP info reported by the Washington Post shows more than 1.7 million border apprehensions were made in the 2021 fiscal year, which finished in September. The flood of illegal immigration started last year but arrived at its peak in July and August, when more than 200,000 migrants were arrested by U.S. law enforcement every month.
Apprehensions made in the last fiscal year break a record set in 1986, when President Ronald Reagan signed a broad immigration reform bill that conceded amnesty and a pathway to U.S. citizenship for migrants who came to the country illegally before 1982. In that year, Border Patrol made 1.69 million apprehensions, as per the Post.
The most Border Patrol arrests were made in the Rio Grande Valley area, where 549,000 apprehensions were made. Another 259,000 illegal immigrants were captured in the Del Rio area.
This record-breaking flood of illegal immigration started after President Biden took the White House, vowing on the campaign trail to turn around previous President Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration strategies. After taking office, Biden halted the construction of Trump’s border wall, stopped the “Remain in Mexico” policy for refuge-seekers, and declared a 100-day stop on most removals.
Republican critics of the president say turning around Trump’s policies and vowing to pass widespread amnesty for illegal immigrants has boosted the flood in migration from Central and South America. Republicans have again and again tried to have Biden administration officials call the increase a “crisis,” without any result.
Recently, Biden’s CBP director nominee Chris Magnus, the police chief of Tucson police, Arizona, was pressed by Republican senators on the flood of migrants crossing the southern border. Though Magnus said the flood was a “significant challenge” and the numbers were “very high,” he would not use the word “crisis.”
“If we spent a little less time debating on what the terminology is and perhaps a little more time trying to fix a broken system and working together, we could address what I’ve already acknowledged is one of the most serious problems that we face right now in our nation,” Magnus said.
Biden selected Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the organization’s endeavors to get the border secure and address the “root causes” of illegal immigration, yet the Post recognized her technique has “had little to no measurable effect.”
Most migrants captured last year were Mexican nationals, which represented 608,000 of the captures. The second biggest gathering of transients were from outside Mexico and Central America, which included Haitians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Cubans, Brazilians, and travelers from many different countries, representing 367,000 captures.
Captures of travelers from Honduras (309,000), Guatemala (279,000) and El Salvador (96,000) made up the leftover apprehensions.
The Post detailed that more than 1.3 million unlawful foreigners have been arrested since Biden accepted office in January.
In the mean time, the Biden organization is confronting legal challenges to its turn around on Trump’s strategies. The organization is at present haggling with Mexico to briefly reestablish the “Stay in Mexico” strategy after a not really settled Biden had acted wrongfully in finishing the arrangement. The president’s endeavor to stop extraditions was likewise hindered in government court.
One Trump strategy Biden has kept on authorizing is the Title 42 general wellbeing strategy to quickly “expel” grown-up line crossers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Be that as it may, the organization is enduring an onslaught from migration activists enraged by the approach, who arranged a virtual walkout last end of the week during a gathering with White House strategy counselors.