Illegal crossings along the U.S. southern border jumped more than 30 percent in July, dealing a blow to President Biden’s new immigration enforcement strategy at a time when his policies are facing multiple legal challenges.
Illegal crossings along the U.S. southern border jumped more than 30 percent in July, according to preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by The Post, dealing a blow to President Biden’s new immigration enforcement strategy at a time when his policies are facing multiple legal challenges.U.S. agents made more than 130,000 arrests along the Mexico border last month, preliminary figures show, up from 99,545 in June.
Biden officials say the U.S. border will remain under strain at a time when international migration is at record levels. They expressed guarded optimism after seeing a sharp drop in illegal entries — roughly 70 percent — in the weeks after the new border measures took effect on May 12. In CBP’s Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio sectors, tens of thousands of migrants crossed the Rio Grande into Texas, skirting concertina wire,and other obstacles deployed by Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” campaign, the latest figures show.
During the past week the administration has highlighted its use of deportation flights to return families to Central America, postingBorder crossings have historically dipped during the hottest months of the summer. But that did not occur in 2021 nor this year, an indication that migration patterns are more attuned to smugglers’ operations and perceived changes in U.S. enforcement, rather than the weather, according to CBP officials.
“The government expects that, if the rule is unavailable for any amount of time, the “current decline in border encounters will quickly be erased by a surge in border crossings that could match—or even exceed—the levels seen in the days leading up to the end of the Title 42” order,” lawyers for the government told the appeals court in a June 27 request for an emergency stay.
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