{"id":1400343,"date":"2022-03-25T12:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400343"},"modified":"2022-03-25T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:01:50","slug":"head-of-u-s-border-patrol-expects-record-breaking-surge-of-migrants-at-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/head-of-u-s-border-patrol-expects-record-breaking-surge-of-migrants-at-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of U.S. Border Patrol Expects Record-Breaking Surge of Migrants at Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhead-of-u-s-border-patrol-expects-record-breaking-surge-of-migrants-at-southern-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u00a0head of U.S.\u00a0Border Patrol says a record-breaking number of migrants is expected at the southern border this spring, estimating as many as 8,000 people could be apprehended daily.<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol chief <a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/person\/raul-ortiz\">Raul Ortiz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/25\/politics\/border-surge-immigration\/index.html\">told CNN<\/a> that 7,000 to 8,000 migrants a day could soon &#8220;become the norm.&#8221; Ortiz brought on 350 additional agents to assist at the border and another 150\u00a0to help with processing remotely.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz estimated that facilities on the border are already over capacity with more than 16,000 migrants in detention.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_1-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper wrapper\">\n<p><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re managing a flow that&#8217;s significant,&#8221;\u00a0he told CNN, saying the expected surge is &#8220;going to put additional strain&#8221; on border officials and facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Border encounters with migrants climbed to 164,973 in February, up from about 154,000 in January but down from surges in November and December, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A greater surge this spring and summer is likely because of the expected withdrawal of Title 42, a Trump-era policy kept in place by <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" data-nid=\"188332\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\">President Biden<\/a><span class=\"rollover-people-block\" id=\"rollover-people-188332\"><span class=\"rollover-block\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/thumb_100\/public\/blogs\/bidenjoe_081315getty_0.jpg?itok=zk8qw7g2\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\" \/><a class=\"name\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a><a class=\"people-articles\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/overnights\/599700-defense-national-security-biden-huddles-with-allies-in-europe\">Defense &#038; National Security \u2014 Biden huddles with allies in Europe<\/a> <a class=\"people-articles\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/599698-on-the-money-unemployment-claims-at-lowest-level-since-late-1960s\">On The Money \u2014\u00a0Unemployment claims at lowest level since late 1960s<\/a> <a class=\"people-articles\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/overnights\/599691-energy-environment-biden-walks-tightrope-on-oil-industry\">Energy &#038; Environment \u2014 Biden walks tightrope on oil industry messaging <\/a> <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\">MORE<span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. The policy allows the administration to expel migrants under a public health emergency related to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reviewing the policy through March 30, a letter <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/599571-gop-pressures-dhs-over-title-42-withdrawal\">spearheaded by Sen. Rick Scott (F-Fla.) and signed by more than a dozen GOP senators<\/a> questioned how the administration is preparing for the expected influx.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a grave concern that threatens to overwhelm our already strained immigration system and will only exacerbate a disastrous situation at our southern border,\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) outlined a new rule to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/599497-dhs-implements-rule-to-streamline-asylum-applications\">streamline the asylum process<\/a>, which the administration says will reduce backlogs and cut the process down from several years to just months.<\/p>\n<p>DHS also created the Southwest Border Coordination Center, an operation room to coordinate interagency response, to help prepare for the influx of migrants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/biden-border-mexico-migrants-title-42-a91b6441-2197-463f-ab1f-2435824a9566.html\">according to Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, when President Biden took office after four years of a tough-on-immigration presidency from\u00a0former President\u00a0Trump, border officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">encountered more than 1.7 million migrants<\/a>, the highest on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0head of U.S.\u00a0Border Patrol says a record-breaking number of migrants is expected at the southern border this spring, estimating as many as 8,000 people could be apprehended daily.Border Patrol chief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}