A record number of 1.73 million migrant encounters were recorded in the 2021 fiscal year. In the 2022 fiscal year, officials expect it to top two million.
In May, there were 239,416 encounters with US law enforcement at the Mexico border – the highest ever recorded.
A fire official said 16 people including four children had also been taken to hospital.
The survivors were “hot to the touch” and suffering from heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
Ventura told Fox News the Yuma sector is one of the hardest hit and that it has “gotten so bad there’s actually one border patrol agent literally apprehending 200 migrants from over 10 different countries.”
As many as 50,000 migrants are waiting in Mexican shelters for a chance to cross the border, hoping to run out the clock on Title 42, the COVID-era rule limiting entry to the U.S., according to internal documents reviewed by Axios.
7-year-old boy from El Salvador puts on his life jacket to prepare to cross the dangerous Rio Grande River into the US. Sources tell me that 3 migrants drowned this morning around 7 am. Despite 42 ruling thousands of migrants prepare to cross illegally.
A federal judge in Louisiana has for now blocked the Biden administration from ending a Trump-era pandemic restriction, known as Title 42, at the US-Mexico border, thwarting plans to terminate the controversial public health authority.
The Biden administration has allowed a more than eleven-fold increase in the number of illegal immigrant offenders let out of Texas prisons and into the general U.S. population, despite federal immigration law requiring ICE to take convicts into custody after serving their time, usually in advance of deportation.
Babin blamed many of the drug problems facing the country on the Biden administration’s eagerness to open the border.
“America is treated like second-class citizens in favor of those who break our laws, who come here illegally and do an unbelievable amount of damage,” he said. “The most maddening thing is that this crisis is completely man-made. This danger is self-inflicted.”
Babin said that because of the Biden administration’s weak border security, drugs are entering the U.S. in historic quantities.
The Southern border of the United States is in unimaginable crisis. Border agents set a new record for arrests of people trying to enter the country illegally from Mexico: 1.9 million in 2021. And 402,000 of those were released within the United States, with asylum hearings scheduled, for which some will never show up.
President Joe Biden’s unprecedented failure to release a report on the number of illegal immigrants deported in 2021 prompted outrage from congressional Republicans who accused the White House of trying to cover up the crisis on the southern border.
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