Number Of Illegal Migrants In Border Patrol Custody More Than Doubles After Post-Title 42 Drop

The number of illegal migrants in Border Patrol facilities has more than doubled roughly three months after Title 42, the Trump-era expulsion policy, ended, according to internal agency data obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Title 42 ended on May 11, and Border Patrol encounters at the southern border dropped in June to roughly 99,000. Border Patrol across all sectors, including in the North, South and along the coast, had almost 17,000 illegal migrants in custody on the evening of August 10 compared to 7,696 on the evening of June 8, according to the data.