Encounters with illegal immigrants at the U.S. southern border hit a record high last month, shattering previous statistics.
Customs and Border Protection officials told Fox News Digital that the number of encounters with migrants will reach a staggering 300,000 in the final months of 2023, unimaginable just a few years ago. It is said that the level has been reached.
Between December 1 and December 31, more than 302,000 migrants were recorded attempting to cross the US southern border.
This was the highest single-month total ever. This is also the first time that the number of encounters with immigrants has exceeded 300,000.
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Migrants join a caravan heading to the U.S. border in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his government would step up efforts to stem irregular migration flows. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
More than 785,000 encounters with migrants have been reported since the start of the fiscal year on October 1, the highest first-quarter total on record.
Republicans have blamed the surge on the administration's policies, including ending Trump-era policies, but the administration is addressing challenges across the hemisphere and needs additional funding from Congress and an immigration reform bill. It is claimed that.
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Migrants walk along a highway in Huistla, Mexico. A caravan of migrants leaves southern Mexico heading north, days before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Mexico City to discuss a new deal to curb the surge of migrants seeking to enter the United States. did. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Texas authorities are sending migrants across the country. On December 31, a planeload of migrants was seen arriving at Chicago Rockford International Airport in Illinois.
Mayor Michael Gonnelli of Secaucus, New Jersey, reported that buses carrying migrants bound for New York City were stopping at the town's train station, attempting to circumvent the city's restrictions on migrant arrivals.
“It is clear that bus operators are finding ways to thwart the executive order's requirement to drop off migrants at the Secaucus station and transport them to their final destinations,” Gonnelli said in a statement.
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Migrants camp near Lukeville, Arizona. (Fox News)
Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas US Delegation to Mexico CityHe met with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
In a joint statement, countries affirmed their commitment to “orderly, humane and regular migration”, tackling the “root causes” of migration, stopping people smuggling and promoting private investment, as well as He also emphasized efforts to invest in “ambitious development programs” around the world. region.
But the statement also said officials discussed the “benefits” of granting some legal status to undocumented immigrants already in the United States, including those protected under the 2012 law. Deferred action for the arrival of children (DACA) — An executive order signed by President Barack Obama that protects some undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as minors.
