Mexican families apprehended at the border almost triple
More than 115,000 Mexican families have been encountered by US Border Patrol so far in 2023, almost triple last fiscal year's count of around 40,000, CBP said.
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More than 115,000 Mexican families have been encountered by US Border Patrol so far in 2023, almost triple last fiscal year's count of around 40,000, CBP said.
'This play tells us how the struggle for radical liberation can never be obtained from a place of comfort'
President Joe Biden’s border strategy has entered a new phase as the White House moves to curb the swell of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico in a test of his campaign promise to restore asylum access.
The Biden administration is implementing major changes to processing asylum-seekers at the southern border, and Republicans are worried it will speed up the rate of migrant releases into the United States.
More Venezuelans were in the custody of the Border Patrol at the end of October than any other nationality of migrants, an indication of the extremely high numbers of displaced South Americans are flocking to the United States amid the Biden administration’s lax border policies.