US-Mexico border prisons surpass 1 million, set record – 07/16/2021 – world
ksuadminJuly 16, 2021
More than a million people were arrested as they attempted to cross the US-Mexico border from January through June, according to estimates released by the US Border Patrol on Friday (16).
The number exceeds all annual detention estimates recorded since 2005. In June alone, there were 178,000 arrests, a 3% increase from the previous month. The survey also shows that the number of migrants traveling with their families has increased, as has the number of unaccompanied children – it was 15,000 in June, and officers estimate it will already be 600 per day this month.
The increase is another setback for Joe Biden’s government over the migration issue. The Democrat took over the presidency of the United States with a promise to create new avenues for legal immigration and improve the asylum process. As early as January, the White House had announced as one of its priorities “the reversal of the draconian immigration policies of the previous administration. [de Donald Trump]”.