Border Patrol Encounters Record-High Number of Migrants for Month of January

Posted on AllSides February 17th, 2022
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(Go Nakamura/Reuters)

Border Patrol agents encountered 153,941 migrants at the southern border in January, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection filed in federal court on Wednesday.

The number of encounters was a record high for the month of January going back at least to the year 2000, CBP records show.

However, the total also represented a 14 percent drop in the number of encounters since December 2021, CBS News reported. The total was the lowest since February 2021, when agents encountered more than 101,000 migrants, just before a major spike in illegal border crossings...

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