Border Patrol Breaks All-Time Migrant Apprehension Record in 2021
Posted on AllSides September 29th, 2021
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U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector
With less than 48 hours left in Fiscal Year 2021, the Border Patrol has already surpassed the total number of migrant apprehensions made in any year along the southwest border since the agency’s inception in 1924. A source within Customs and Border Protection notes the unofficial apprehension record shows more than 1,646,000 for the year as of Wednesday.
The total reflects arrests made within the nine southwest Border Patrol Sectors from California to Texas. According to CBP, the previous record stood since 2000 when 1,643,679 were arrested.
The source says the final...
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