REPORT: 100K Migrants Apprehended at U S -Mexico Border in February breitbart.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from breitbart.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As President Biden rolls back Trump-era immigration policies, some fear that a surge of migrants at the southern border will spread coronavirus across the country.
By Melanie Arter | March 3, 2021 | 12:56pm EST
- A Border Patrol agent apprehends illegal immigrants shortly after they crossed the border from Mexico into the United States on Monday, March 26, 2018 in the Rio Grande Valley Sector near McAllen, Texas. (Photo by LOREN ELLIOTT/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Border Patrol agents apprehended about 3,600 illegal immigrants a day two weeks ago, and that number jumped last week to over 4,000 illegals a day, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday.
Biggs said that means 120,000 illegal aliens will be apprehended each month, not to mention the 30,000 to 100,000 illegals who got away.
“Let me tell you, when I m talking to the Border Patrol agents, I talk to folks on the border regularly, and everyone tells me that we re slammed, that we have reached a surge point again. Just two weeks ago we were apprehending about 3600 per day, which is really well above what even Jeh Johnson said was a cris