Despite a significant decrease from May, apprehensions of migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally last month set a record for any June with available data.
U.S. Border Patrol reported processing migrants 191,898 times along the southern border in June, a nearly 14% drop from May, when the agency carried out over 222,000 apprehensions, an all-time. The previous record for June was reported last year, when Border Patrol carried out 178,649 arrests.
The unprecedented levels of unauthorized migration to the southern border have also posed dire humanitarian and operational challenges for the U.S. government, and become a political liability for President Biden, who promised to create a"humane" and"orderly" system by reversing Trump-era policies. Just over 90,381, or 47%, of the Border Patrol apprehensions in June led to migrants being quickly expelled to Mexico or their home country under a pandemic-era emergency policy known as Title 42 that a federal court required the Biden administration to keep in place, Friday's data show.
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