New data pokes holes in Gov. Abbott's claim Biden administration isn't stopping people at border [View all]
New numbers released this week by U.S. Customs and Border Protection contradict Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's repeated claim that the Biden administration has an open-borders policy.
Apprehensions of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border declined in June and July. However, a New York Times analysis of CBP's data reveals that the number of apprehensions for the first 10 months of the federal government's 2022 fiscal year blew past the total for all of the prior fiscal year.
By the end of June, border security officials undertook more than 1.74 million apprehensions, surpassing 2021's total of 1.73 million, according to the Times. Last year's number was the highest recorded since 1960, the paper also notes.
On the current current trajectory, officials are likely to apprehend more than 2 million border crossers by the end of the 2022 fiscal year, according to the Times' number crunching.
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