U.S. Border Records Highest Number of Illegal Crossings in Two Decades
White House officials said they are prepping for a worst-case scenario projecting an average of 18,000 undocumented individuals attempting to enter the U.S. daily.
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The U.S. has made more than a million arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border since October 2021, the fastest pace of illegal border crossings in at least the last two decades — with 209,906 arrests being made along the border in March alone, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Of the 1.01 million crossings so far this year, roughly 51 percent resulted in the migrant being expelled under Title 42, while the rest were either rapidly deported, detained or released to seek asylum.
White House officials said they are prepping for a worst-case scenario that assumes that an average of 18,000 migrants are crossing the border illegally a day and the administration is also expected to implement a new border policy which asks asylum officers rather than immigration judges to hear claims, which could speed up the time it takes to deliver a migrant’s asylum decision.
The backlog of pending cases in immigration courts has reached 1.7 million, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.
The surge this year is being driven by new trends at the border where roughly 40 percent of migrants are fleeing dictatorships or desperate economic circumstances.
