The number of migrants detained at the southwestern border has dropped to the lowest levels in recent months, easing a crisis that has affected every region of the country.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX ) disclosed this week at a House Appropriations Committee hearing that Border Patrol agents stationed along the 2, 000-mile U.S. Mexico border made an average of 3,800 arrests per day over the past three weeks, a number that was divided between March and April.
The amount, 79, 800 arrests in three days, had placed Border Patrol on record to assault 114, 000 unlawful immigrants in a month if that fear rate stays the same. The last time monthly arrests dipped that significantly was in February 2021, when 97, 643 were recorded, and the 99, 538 recorded in June 2023.
In the Wednesday hearing, Cuellar addressed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,” We’re doing something right.” I ask that you keep an eye on what needs to be done to lower those figures.
In contrast to the same month in previous years, the number of migrants crossing from Mexico in March saw an unusual reprieve, which contrasts with the springtime surge that was caused by a winter slowdown in travel.
Border authorities apprehended 137, 484 migrants at the 2, 000- mile southern border in March, according to federal statistics shared with the , Washington Examiner.
Illegal crossings at the southern border have fluctuated between 150, 000 and 250, 000 per month over the past 38 months.
The number of migrants who are caught is an indicator of how many people outside the United States are trying to enter, despite the fact that the full extent of illegal immigration is unknown.
In an analysis released on Friday, the Washington Office on Latin America, an immigrant and human rights advocacy group, described the recent decline as “very unusual.”
” Across the U. S. Mexico border, migration continues a very unusual springtime lull, sinking below the January- March levels, which were already among the lowest monthly migrant encounter totals of the Biden administration”, wrote Adam Isacson, WOLA’s defense oversight director, in the report.
The Mexican government, according to Isacson, is responsible for the decline in that country because it increased deterrence and enforcement efforts as migrants enter southern Mexico and attempt to travel to northern Mexico.
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” Mexico usually does not detain migrants for very long, and , deportations , have been infrequent this year”, Isacson explained. ” Instead, security and migration forces have been placing apprehended migrants on buses and sending them further into the country’s south or elsewhere into its interior, away from the U. S. border”.
Mayorkas claimed that over the past 11 months, the Biden administration had returned or removed 635, 000 illegal immigrants, despite the majority of them being rejected at the southern border. The number of migrants who attempt to enter may be affected by the border expulsions and removals because they are aware that they could be immediately sent back to Mexico.
