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Biden's Border Crisis Hits Historic Milestone
Julio Rosas | @Julio_Rosas11 | Posted: Oct 20, 2021 10:35 AM
The ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has reached a new milestone now that the month of September is over, which marks the end of fiscal year 2021. The Washington Post reports they have seen the yet-to-be-released apprehension numbers for all fiscal year 2021 and Border Patrol arrested more people during that period than in other recorded years.
The Post reports Border Patrol detained more than 1.7 million people attempting to illegally enter the U.S. through the southern border from October 2020 to September 2021. Illegal entries along the southern border steadily increased in the last few months of Donald Trump's presidency but remained below 100,000. In February, the first full month of President Joe Biden being in office, there were 101,099 apprehensions. Each month since, the number continued to climb during the hottest months of the year, with July and August seeing more than 200,000 apprehensions each.
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