Border Patrol: Record surge of migrants entering U.S. illegally
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By Karen Graham 13 hours ago in Politics
With just five weeks left before President-elect Trump takes office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is reporting that the number of undocumented migrants apprehended at the U.S. southwest border has surged to levels seen in the 2014 crisis.
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The data released by the CBP on Thursday show that in November, border patrol agents apprehended a daily average of nearly 1,574 border crossers, a total of 47,214 people attempting to enter the country illegally.
The increase in migration has nearly reached the levels seen in the migrant crisis in the summer of 2014 at our southwest border. It has been driven primarily by families. The CBP says the influx is mainly increased migration from Central America, Haitian nationals from Brazil, and Cuban nationals.
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