Illegal Immigration Arrests Highest They’ve Been Since 1986

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Illegal Immigration Arrests Highest They’ve Been Since 1986

'We’re seeing the highest number of cross border crossings and it’s all because of the catastrophic open border policies by the Biden administration...'
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October 20, 2021
 
A Border Patrol agent watches as a group of migrants walk across the Rio Grande on their way to turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas./AP Photo

Under the Biden administration, US Border Patrol arrests reached the highest levels this past year since 1986, according to recently released data from US Customs and Border Protection.

Immigration agents detained more than 1.7 million illegal immigrants at the southern border during the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September. That is the highest the numbers have been since 1986, when Border Patrol made 1.69 million arrests nationwide.

The Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas saw the most arrests, with 549,000 Border Patrol apprehensions. The Del Rio sector had 259,000 apprehensions.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blamed the Biden administration for the high illegal immigration numbers, accusing the president of failing to enforce immigration laws.

https://headlineusa.com/illegal-immigration-highest-1986/?utm_source=HUSAemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail

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WaPo: Border Patrol Apprehensions Reach 35-Year High
FY 2021 is Joe Biden’s annus horribilis, but oddly, CBP doesn’t seem concerned
By Andrew R. Arthur on October 20, 2021

It’s October 20, and CBP hasn’t released its official statistics on the number of illegal migrants who were apprehended at the Southwest border in September yet. Fortunately, the Washington Post has greater access than the general public, and has published them for the agency. They are not good for border security, the country, or the president. FY 2021 was Joe Biden’s annus horribilis, to paraphrase Her Majesty, the Queen, but oddly, CBP does not seem overly concerned.

All told, as per the Post, CBP “encountered” 1.7 million-plus migrants at the Southwest border, a combination of Border Patrol apprehensions and aliens deemed inadmissible at the land borders there in FY 2021. For comparison, that’s about as many people as live in Biden’s home state of Delaware (990,334) plus his current residence in the District of Columbia (714,153).

The Post article fails to clearly delineate between illegal migrants who were caught by Border Patrol and those arrested at ports of entry, but it appears that the numbers that the Post provides by nationality are apprehensions by Border Patrol: 608,000 Mexican nationals, 309,000 Hondurans, 279,000 Guatemalans, 96,000 from El Salvador, and 367,000 “others”, which includes “Haitians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorans, Cubans, Brazilians and migrants from dozens of other nations”.

https://cis.org/Arthur/WaPo-Border-Patrol-Apprehensions-Reach-35Year-High