There have been more than 2 million arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border so far in fiscal year 2022, which ends Sept. 30.
The Republic's Rafael Carranza and Maritza Dominguez discuss how they reported on the 2012 killing of José Antonio Elena Rodríguez for the podcast.Encounters along the U.S.-Mexico border surpassed 2 million for the first time in one year, according to recently released U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
The number of encounters at the border increased slightly from July to August, with a total of 203,598 encounters recorded last month. Twenty-two percent of the encounters in August involved people who had at least one prior encounter in the prior 12 months, CBP said. Could Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' migrant tactic backfire politically with key voting bloc?
The Yuma Sector saw a decrease in encounters of less than 1% from July to August, according to CBP. The sector has seen 284,078 encounters so far this fiscal year. “Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration across the Western Hemisphere, including the recent increase in encounters at the southwest U.S. border,” CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus said in a written statement.
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