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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its monthly update touting that nan number of migrant encounters had decreased since past month.
In March, nan Border Patrol recorded 137,480 encounters betwixt ports of introduction on nan southwest border. The encounters betwixt ports of introduction on nan southwest separator were 45% lower than successful December 2023, and 16% lower than successful March 2023.
While it was nan lowest March for Border Patrol encounters nether nan Biden administration, CBP records show nan first six months of fiscal twelvemonth 2024 had 1,340,801 full encounters, exceeding nan first six months of fiscal twelvemonth 2023, which group a grounds of 1,226,254 full encounters.
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More than 100 migrants unreserved done a separator fence, March 21, 2024, arsenic Texas National Guardsmen effort to extremity them. (James Breeden for New York Post / Mega)
The study comes arsenic Texas Gov. Greg Abbott highlights his state's ain program, Operation Lone Star, which he said continues to capable nan vulnerable gaps created by nan Biden administration’s refusal to unafraid nan confederate border.
"Construction connected nan separator wall continues successful Zapata County. While nan Biden Administration refuses to unafraid nan border, Texas useful around-the-clock to deter and repel forbidden migration on nan confederate border," Abbott wrote successful a X station connected Thursday.
Since nan motorboat of Operation Lone Star, nan multi-agency effort has led to complete 507,200 forbidden migrant apprehensions, and much than 41,500 criminal arrests, pinch much than 36,900 felony charges, Abbott added.
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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and nan Biden management person been feuding complete really to grip nan increasing separator crisis. (Getty Images)
"Every individual who is apprehended aliases arrested and each ounce of narcotics seized would person different made their measurement into communities crossed Texas and nan federation owed to President Joe Biden’s unfastened separator policies," Abbott said successful a release.
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CBP's monthly migrant brushwood statistic are gathered connected nan first time of nan adjacent period and released 2 weeks later.
"CBP — successful coordination pinch our partners crossed nan Federal authorities arsenic good arsenic overseas partners — continues to return important actions to disrupt criminal networks amidst unprecedented hemispheric migration activity," CBP Senior Official Performing nan Duties of nan Commissioner Troy A. Miller said. "Encounters astatine our confederate separator are little correct now, but we stay prepared for changes, continually managing operations to respond to ever-shifting transnational criminal activities and migration patterns."
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to entreaty a national ruling that blocks a authorities rule that would person allowed authorities to apprehension forbidden immigrants and springiness authorities judges nan powerfulness to bid deportations. (Getty Images)
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On Friday, nan Department of Homeland Security besides announced that an Afghan national, who is connected nan U.S. panic watchlist, was taken backmost into custody, aft he was antecedently captured astatine nan U.S.-Mexico separator and released doubly onto American soil.
