2.4M migrants stopped at US border in record annual high

The US saw a record 2.4 million migrants stopped at its border with Mexico in the fiscal year that ended last month — a surge fueled by asylum seekers from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua amid deteriorating economic and political conditions in those countries.

US Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that migrants were stopped 2.38 million times in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30.

September marked the third-highest month of border encounters under President Biden, with 227,547 stops recorded by officials.

The swell was an 11.5% increase in border stops from August and an 18.5% increase from September 2021, customs officials said.

Migrants from what the CBP calls the “three failing communist regimes” made up more than a third of the September encounters, overtaking people seeking asylum from Mexico and Central America’s Northern Triangle.