Incredibly, Biden’s Border Disaster Got Even Worse in July
Latest numbers show illegal entries are up — exceeding 200,000 for the first time in 21 years — while expulsions are falling
By Andrew R. Arthur on August 13, 2021
On August 3, my colleague Todd Bensman reported that “July Apprehension Numbers Have Entered Historic Crisis Level” based on preliminary numbers. CBP’s official border statistics for last month are now out, and while Bensman was right in his conclusions, it's actually worse than the preliminary numbers suggested. Instead of 210,000 CBP migrant encounters at the Southwest border, the actual number exceeds 212,000, including almost 200,000 Border Patrol migrant apprehensions. Incredibly, the president’s border disaster — which was already bad — is getting worse, as illegal entries rose and expulsions fell.
For the previous three months, Border Patrol’s monthly apprehensions at the Southwest border were higher than at any point since April 2000. The administration has now broken that record set 21 years ago, when more than 180,050 aliens were apprehended. Now, you must go back to March 2000 (220,063) to find a month in which agents apprehended more aliens.
Of the 199,777 migrants who were apprehended by the Border Patrol after entering illegally in July, just 93,781 were expelled under CDC orders issued under Title 42 of the U.S. Code in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which date back to the Trump administration. That is a 9 percent decline from June, when more than 103,000 Title 42 expulsions occurred.
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