Migrant crossings hit 10-year high this fiscal year amid border crisis, with four months to go
More than 180,000 migrants were encountered in May alone
By Adam Shaw | Fox News
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The number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border so far this fiscal year has hit a 10-year high, with more than four months still to go in the fiscal year -- as the Biden administration struggles to contain a continuing crisis at the southern border.
The number of migrants encountered at the border in May was more than 180,000, a massive spike over the 23,000 encountered during the same month in 2020 -- and nearly 40,000 over the highest month of the 2019 border crisis, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced this week.
It means that 898,949 migrants have been encountered by Border Patrol so far this fiscal year, which began in October. That is the highest since FY 2006, where there were more than 1 million encounters at the southern border overall. It is likely that 2021 will exceed that number eventually.
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