Migrant encounters at the southwest border surged in July, reversing two months of declining numbers but still well below previous highs posted earlier in this fiscal year.
Encounters rose from 144,566 in June to 183,503 in July, with migrant families accounting for more than three-quarters of that increase, according to the latest data from Customs and Border Protection.
“This is, you know, primarily being driven by families from the Northern Triangle of Central America – El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala,” said David Bier, associate director for immigration studies at the Cato Institute. “And those … families had been shut out under Title 42 until May.” Ariel Ruiz, the senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, said the July increases are not the result of “any one particular policy change,” but come from the U.S. continuing to enforce an outdated immigration policy that was “implemented to deter Mexican migration in the ’90s.”
Ira Mehlman, media director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates for tough border restrictions, said the “president doesn’t have unlimited authority to parole people into the United States.” In Tucson, where the number of migrants surged in July, an official who works with the individuals and families who come here in hopes of a better future, said the dangers they face en route “really speaks to the situation that they’ve been fleeing from, from for so long.”
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