{"id":556884,"date":"2021-06-08T13:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556884"},"modified":"2021-06-08T13:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:06:28","slug":"number-of-illegal-border-crossings-highest-in-fifteen-years-amid-biden-admin-immigration-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/number-of-illegal-border-crossings-highest-in-fifteen-years-amid-biden-admin-immigration-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Of Illegal Border Crossings Highest In Fifteen Years Amid Biden Admin Immigration Struggles"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fnumber-of-illegal-border-crossings-highest-in-fifteen-years-amid-biden-admin-immigration-struggles%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=556884&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BW-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Nearly a million illegal immigrants have been apprehended by United States Customs and Border Protection since October 1, 2020, and more than 170,000 were captured last month, according to new statistics from CBP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/border-crossing-migrant-surge-decade-number-immigration-49062627-9605-4724-8628-c3f96bea8567.html\">obtained by Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are already the highest since 2006, with still four months left to go in the agency\u2019s fiscal year, the outlet reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border this fiscal year is already the most since 2006 \u2014 with four months left to go,\u201d Axios noted. \u201cWhy it matters: The numbers quantify a lingering problem. Nearly 900,000 migrants were stopped by the Border Patrol from Oct. 1 to May 31. There also were more than 170,000 apprehensions last month \u2014 in line with 20-year records set in March and April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numbers have plateaued for the last several months right around 170,000, with around 6,000 illegal immigrants apprehended daily, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/03\/politics\/nearly-6000-daily-border-encounters-april\/index.html\">according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more importantly, the CBP\u2019s data seems to show that, while most immigrants are coming to the United States-Mexico border from Mexico and Central America, an increasing number of migrants are traveling to the border \u201cfrom more distant nations such as Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, and Haiti,\u201d undermining Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 strategy for addressing the \u201croot causes\u201d of illegal immigration by focusing exclusively on Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is in Guatemala this week, offering the government there a substantial aid package in return for greater immigration interdiction along the country\u2019s border with Mexico. Guatemala has not responded favorably so far; Guatemala\u2019s president blamed the Biden administration for the surge in migrant activity in an interview with CBS News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of migrants still come from the \u201cNorthern Triangle,\u201d but as Axios notes, it appears that migrants from Ecuador now make up a significant number of those captured \u2014 enough that the CBP\u2019s interdiction strategy could shift focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn just five sectors, more than 32,000 Ecuadorians have been encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border this fiscal year. About 13,000 Brazilians have been stopped in the Yuma, Arizona, sector alone, on top of about 7,000 in two other sectors, according to the data,\u201d Axios reported. \u201cThere were fewer than 40,000 migrants not from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador encountered by border officials for the entire fiscal year of 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has, of course, been pressing a more liberal approach to border security, boosting spending for housing and caring for child migrants and other asylum seekers, but leaving the Department of Homeland Security budget largely flat, despite the surge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/biden-border-wall-immigration-budget\/2021\/05\/28\/18836084-bff0-11eb-9bae-5a86187646fe_story.html\">per the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the Biden administration drew down DHS\u2019s focus on border security, however, it quietly ramped up pressure on Mexico to tighten its own borders in the hopes that Mexico can intercept and turn back migrants from the \u201cNorthern Triangle.\u201d The Administration is trying to work out a deal with Mexican officials before they meet with Vice President Harris, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/hamedaleaziz\/biden-mexico-migration-requests\">according to Buzzfeed News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration wants Mexico to send back more immigrants turned around by the US, take back additional families expelled by border agents, and do more to prevent Mexican airports from being used as pit stops for migration routes, according to government documents,\u201d the outlet reported last week.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has not \u2014 and will not \u2014 visit the United States-Mexico border in her efforts at handling the \u201croot causes\u201d of immigration. In an interview with Lester Holt, that aired Tuesday morning, Harris flatly refused to concede that her tasks in Mexico and Central America included attention to border security.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a million illegal immigrants have been apprehended by United States Customs and Border Protection since October 1, 2020, and more than 170,000 were captured last month, according to new &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279619,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BW-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Number Of Illegal Border Crossings Highest In Fifteen Years Amid Biden Admin Immigration Struggles","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BW-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Number Of Illegal Border Crossings Highest In Fifteen Years Amid Biden Admin Immigration Struggles","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556884","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}