ELECTION PLOY: Migrant Apprehensions at Southern Border Hit Lowest Level of Biden Era
by BOB PRICE 20 Jul 2024
The arrests of migrants who illegally cross the southwest border with Mexico between points of entry hit its lowest mark of the Biden era. The sharp drop in migrant apprehensions follows a series of election-year gambits to distract voters from the previous three and a half years of failed border security policies.
Border Patrol agents apprehended 83,536 migrants who illegally crossed the U.S. southern border in June, according to the Southwest Land Border Encounters report released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection this week. The report catalogs the lowest number of migrant encounters since President Joe Biden was sworn in in January 2021.
In February 2021, President Biden’s first full month in office, migrant encounters jumped from 75,316 in January to 97,643. The numbers continued to climb for the next three years, peaking at nearly 250,000 in December 2023.
https://www.alipac.us/f12/election-ploy-migrant-apprehensions-southern-border-hit-lowest-level-biden-era-422098/
