Biden's Border Crackdown Could Disproportionately Affect Families

A new border crackdown unveiled by the Biden administration this week is likely to disproportionately affect families, whose soaring numbers in the last decade have drastically changed the profile of the population crossing the southern border. Family units have come to represent a substantial share of border crossers, accounting for about 40% of all migrants who have entered the United States this year. Families generally have been released into the country quickly because of legal constraints

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