Border Patrol 'Revises' July Apprehensions to Exceed 200,000
The highest number in 21 Years; the case of the missing 822 illegal migrants
By Andrew R. Arthur on September 17, 2021
In my last post, I analyzed CBP’s “Southwest Land Border Encounters” statistics for August. I failed to mention one statistic, largely because it was about the previous month: CBP revised up Border Patrol apprehensions at the Southwest border for July, to 200,599 (a difference of 822 from its prior totals). That is a bad milestone, and a curious revision.
It’s a bad milestone because it marks the first month in the last 21 years (Border Patrol’s monthly numbers begin in October 1999) that monthly apprehension numbers at the Southwest border exceeded 200,000. July thus joins February 2000 and March 2000 in the 200,000-plus club.
It’s a curious revision because it raises questions about how well CBP is tracking the illegal migrants it is apprehending, processing, and releasing. I could imagine if the agency overlooked one or two aliens it apprehended in July, but 822? That’s malpractice.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Border-Patrol-Revises-July-Apprehensions-Exceed-200000
