Washington, D.C. (August 13, 2021) – Two new articles from the Center for Immigration Studies describes
worsening numbers at the border for July, with no signs of slowing down, and an increasing globalization of the illegal surge. The number of U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) migrant encounters at the Southwest border exceeded 212,000 last month, including almost 200,000 Border Patrol migrant apprehensions.
For the previous three months, Border Patrol’s monthly apprehensions at the Southwest border were higher than at any point since
April 2000. The administration has now broken that record set 21 years ago, when more than 180,050 aliens were apprehended.
Of the 199,777 migrants who were apprehended by the Border Patrol after entering illegally in July, fewer than 94,000 were expelled under CDC orders issued under Title 42 of the U.S. Code in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which date back to the Trump administration. That is a 9 percent decline from June.
Worse, it is the first time this
fiscal year that more aliens who entered illegally were processed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), and therefore largely allowed to remain in the United States, than were expelled under Title 42.
This illegal surge continues to globalize. In an
article published in the National Review, executive director Mark Krikorian states that the share of Border Patrol arrests of illegals not from Mexico or the Northern Triangle countries of Central America has doubled over the past six months, from about 15 percent in March to 29 percent in July. Migrants from Mauritania, Cuba, Haiti, Senegal, Eritrea, and elsewhere have arrived at the Southern border. Many of these economic migrants are Haitians who were firmly settled in Chile and Brazil, but who are taking Biden up on his invitation to fraudulently apply for asylum.
Andrew Arthur, the Center’s resident fellow in law and policy, said, “Every indicator in CBP’s July numbers is bad for the president and his policies. Apprehension records dating back more than two decades are being shattered while the one successful border policy Biden held over from the Trump administration — Title 42 — is in decline.”
Without a serious shift in immigration policy on the part of the Biden administration, the crisis at the Southern border will continue to worsen.
