administration has been careful not to call it a crisis. insisting the real problem is diagnosing the problems they are fleeing. the dire circumstances many are fleeing from, that that is a situation we need to spend our time, our effort on and we need to address it if we re going to prevent for of an influx of migrants to come. reporter: for some who live along the southern boarder, that is not good enough. hire more immigration judges, many asylum officers to process these asylums faster. do we know what s causing the surge in craossings and is ther any sign to come? reporter: there s always multiple push factors. it seems like a never ending crisis. you see behind me the reality of what s happening here. this large group, one of multiple large groups we have seen in the last hour and more are coming here just off camera.
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number of people in decades. we re facing a serious challenge at our southern boarder. the challenge is made more acute and difficult because of the covid-19 pandemic. reporter: a surge in migrant traffic unseen in over two decades. an unprecedented number of m migrants are escaping worsening conditions in their home country. braving the summer heat. global temperatures in july, the hottest on record. last month alone, over 212,000 apprehensions were made along the border during the time of the year when numbers historically drop. the numbers were helped by repeat offenders. 27% of july crossings were made by those who tried and failed to cross in the last year due to a trump era policy that allowed them to be turned away at the border.
surpassing the record in march when they were flooded with minors who waited over 120 hours in border patrol custody. just as we did with the challenge of unaccompanied children in march of this year, we have a plan. we are executing our plan and that takes time. reporter: the biden administration has been careful not to call it a crisis. insisting the real problem is diagnosing the problems they are the conditions they are fleeing. the dire circumstances many are fleeing from, that that is a situation we need to spend our time, our effort on and we need to address it if we re going to prevent for of an influx of migrants to come. reporter: for some who live along the southern boarder, that is not good enough. hire more immigration judges, many asylum officers to process
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