The numbers are in for October, and they’re no surprise. According to an exclusive report from Breitbart News, during the first month of the 2023 fiscal year, Border Patrol agents arrested (temporarily) about 204,000 migrants who had illegally crossed the border from Mexico. That marked a whopping 28 percent increase over last October, which itself saw a record-setting 159,113 migrants. It was the eighth-straight month in which more than 200,000 migrants had been encountered.
Of the nine sectors along the U.S. border with Mexico, the El Paso Sector was the busiest, with 53,000 encounters, outpacing both the Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio Sectors. It appears that migrants from Venezuela have shifted from Del Rio to El Paso, whereas Del Rio is experiencing increasing numbers of Cubans.
How many of those migrants encountered were allowed to remain, we aren’t told. Theoretically, Venezuelan–but not Cuban–“asylum seekers” can be quickly returned to Mexico under the CDC’s Title 42 protocols. While there, however, most simply keep trying until they are eventually admitted.
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