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More than 170K immigrants stopped at border for third straight month: report
By Samuel Chamberlain
June 7, 2021 | 11:13pm | Updated
More than 170,000 illegal immigrants were stopped at the US-Mexico border in May, the third straight month that number was exceeded, Axios reported late Monday.
The report, which cited preliminary US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, added that approximately 900,000 migrants have been apprehended between Oct. 1 and the end of last month, the most through eight months of a fiscal year since 2006.
CBP has not recorded more than 170,000 border encounters in three consecutive months since 2000, when at least 180,000 illegal immigrants were stopped in the first four months of that year. Authorities are on pace to apprehend approximately 1.35 million illegal immigrants, the most since 2000, when 1.68 million were apprehended.
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