Border Patrol encounters with migrants on the southern border were down 50% in the two days after the Biden administration adopted new policies to deter migrants from entering the country, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed Sunday.
Border Patrol encounters with migrants on the United States’ southern border were down 50% in the two days after the Biden administration adopted new policies to deter migrants from entering the country, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed Sunday.
“We have seen I think approximately 6,300 on Friday and about 4,200 yesterday by the United States Border Patrol and we saw over 10,000 before the end of Title 42 earlier last week,” Mayorkas said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
Mayorkas and other administration officials have zeroed in on smugglers who help migrants get to and cross the border, blaming them for spreading misinformation about U.S. immigration policies and helping people enter the country illegally. The Biden administration is striving to move away from that process by discouraging crossing attempts at all by pledging more severe penalties and to double or triple weekly flights bringing migrants back to their country of origin.
The U.S. will also open “regional processing centers” across the hemisphere to help process asylum claims and other immigration applications in a bid to stem the flow of migrants before they even reach the border.
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