The US Border Patrol had over 6.3 million encounters with illegal immigrant border crossers from the beginning of the Biden administration in January 2021 to December 2023. Almost 4 million of those encounters, or about 58 percent, were in border sectors that are partly in Texas.
Haunting photos show the situation on Tuesday at the southern US border, where Texas National Guard members were piling up concertina wire to prevent migrants from crossing.