Customs and Border Protection (CPB) had more than 200,000 encounters with migrants at the southern border in May, a record high for a single day before the end of Title 42, officials said, but the public health order ends. decreased sharply.
The number of encounters at the southern border in May was 204,561. This is down from 241,136 in May 2022 and higher than 180,597 in May 2021. It is also down from 211,159 in April.
May has been one of the busiest months at the border before the Title 42 public health order ends on May 11. The order, which had allowed for the rapid deportation of migrants at the southern border since March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and nearing its end, is already at the height of a historic crisis. Among other things, fears arose of a new wave of immigration at the border.
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FILE: A U.S. Border Patrol agent leads a van through a line of women waiting to apply for asylum between two border walls in San Diego, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Those concerns seem justified, as more than 10,000 migrants were encountered a day near the border in the days leading up to May 11. The Biden administration moved to release immigrants into the interior without a court date, citing overcrowding, but a federal judge quickly blocked the move. To lawsuits from Florida.
Once the order ends, the Biden administration will expand legal avenues for immigration, including establishing processing centers in Central America and allowing more than 1,000 immigrants per day to enter the CBP One app for reservation processing. encouraged the use of It also strengthened Title VIII penalties for illegal re-entry and introduced asylum rules that primarily prohibit the application of immigrants who entered the country illegally and failed to apply for asylum in their previous country.
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Since May 11, the numbers have plummeted, with officials touting a 70% drop in encounters, topping 3,000 per day. So far, those numbers seem to have stayed roughly at that level.
CBP said in its operational update that half of all May encounters occurred between May 1 and 11.two coming soon–One-third (65%) of all encounters were with single adults, and 9,943 were with unaccompanied children.
The Biden administration has linked the sharp decline in encounters with policy implementation and post-Title 42 border planning.
“As a result of comprehensive planning and preparedness efforts, encounters along the Southwest border have significantly increased since returning to full Title 8 immigration on May 12,” CBP Acting Administrator Troy Miller said in a statement. has decreased to .
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“As we continue to implement our plans, including increasing access to legal channels and procedures while increasing penalties for illegal traversers, we will monitor changes in encounter trends and adjust our response as necessary. I will go,” he said.
But the asylum rules at the heart of the plan have faced multiple lawsuits from both Republicans and left-wing civil rights groups. Republicans say the rule is a “smoke screen” to hide the number of admissions, while the American Civil Liberties Union says it limits immigrants’ asylum-seeking rights.
