Migrant Encounters at Southern Border Hit New Monthly Record — With Three Days Still Left in December

Isaac SchorrDec 29th, 2023, 11:19 am
 

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recorded a new monthly record for migrant encounters at the southern border in December with three days still left in the month to build on it.

Fox News’ Bill Melugin reports:

CBP sources tell FOX there have now been over 276,00 migrant encounters at the southern border in December, the highest single month ever recorded, breaking the prior record set in September at 269,735, and there are still 3 days of December left. Record is being shattered.

This new record number includes over 230,000 Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal immigrants in December, also the highest single month of apprehensions ever recorded for Border Patrol.

We are now at over 760,000 migrant encounters since October 1st, making the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 also the highest ever recorded. Thats a population size bigger than Seattle in just three months.

All records being blown out of the water under the Biden admin as the crisis gets worse – not better.

The number of encounters recorded by CBP has increased during every fiscal year of the Biden administration, from 1,734,686 in 2021, to 2,378,944 in 2022, to 2,475, 669 in 2023.

851,508 people were arrested at the southern border in 2019, during the last non-pandemic year of the Trump administration.

Upon taking office, President Joe Biden quickly acted to repeal elements of Trump’s border policy, including “Remain in Mexico,” which held that migrants should stay in the United States’ southern neighbor until their scheduled court date in the U.S.

In March, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz told Congress that the U.S. does not have “operation control” of the border, contradicting the claims of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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