Arrests of migrants with criminal records up 340%

Some look into the camera with hardened faces and bodies covered in tattoos. Others look ordinary and stare down as if saddened or contrite.

They are some of the fugitive foreign felons, child predators and gang members arrested just in the past week trying to enter the United States undetected. And their numbers are on the rise.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows the number of criminal non-citizen encounters has risen 340% in the past three years, to a high of 32,194 in fiscal year 2023. Since Oct. 1,...