Federal law enforcement at the border encountered nearly 200,000 migrants in July attempting to enter the United States illegally from Mexico, a number that shows the persistence of the most severe illegal immigration crisis in America's history.
Federal law enforcement encountered 199,976 people attempting to cross the southern border without authorization last month, according to data released on Monday evening from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. President Joe Biden's top federal border official touted the slight drop as being headed in the right direction.
Since the start of the government's fiscal 2022 year last October, U.S. border officials have intercepted 2,242,413 people attempting to enter the country unlawfully, including 1.95 million at the southern border. In 2019, a year that Democrats dubbed a humanitarian crisis at the southern border, fewer than 1 million people were encountered.
Roughly 134,000 people were adults traveling alone, 52,000 were part of a family, and nearly 14,000 were children who arrived without a parent or guardian.
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