USBP to Pass 1M Alien Apprehensions Just Halfway Through FY22
PUBLISHED: Thu, APR 7th 2022 @ 5:49 pm EDT
According to the head of the U.S. Border Patrol, more than 1 million aliens have been apprehended after illegally crossing the southern border just halfway into fiscal year 2022. "It is a strong likelihood that we would have apprehended over 1 million individuals," Chief Raul Ortiz told reporters in a briefing in San Antonio days before the six-month benchmark, reports the Washington Examiner.
Border Patrol has apprehended 993,000 aliens illegally crossing the border since October 2021, said Ortiz. This means that the U.S. is on pace to hit well over 2 million alien apprehensions during this fiscal year, especially when considering Biden's decision to end the CDC's pandemic border order, Title 42.
Over 24 hours earlier last week, USCBP encountered more than 9,000 aliens - this is dramatically higher than Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson's definition for a border crisis - which was over 1,000 alien encounters per day. Yet, the Biden Admin. has decided to open the floodgates on the border by ending Title 42; without this order, Border Patrol has reportedly been told to expect up to 18,000 alien apprehensions per day.
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