CBP Releases July Border, Port Numbers
The kind-of good news: Border Patrol apprehensions are down. The bad news: Everything else.
By Andrew R. Arthur on August 19, 2024
Shortly before Vice President (and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate) Kamala Harris made her campaign speech in North Carolina on August 16, CBP released statistics on its encounters at the borders and the ports in July. The good news is that Border Patrol Southwest border apprehensions were down to their lowest monthly level under this administration last month. The bad news is everything else, including the fact that the Biden-Harris DHS continues to funnel inadmissible aliens into the country at an alarming rate. Americans deserve answers about the ongoing migrant crisis, but all CBP’s offering is deflection and happy talk.
The Good: The Deceiving Decline in Southwest Border Apprehensions. In July, Border Patrol agents at the Southwest border apprehended 56,408 illegal entrants, a 32.5 percent decline compared to June (83,533 apprehensions) and the lowest monthly apprehension figure since September 2020.
Roughly 63 percent of those apprehensions involved nationals of Mexico (22,231) and the “Northern Triangle” countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras (14,435). The remaining 20,742 aliens apprehended at the Southwest border came from farther afield, including 1,851 nationals of the People’s Republic of China, 1,469 Indian nationals, and 4,631 Colombians.
That good news, however, is deceiving, and to explain I must first offer some recent border history.
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