Why Illegal Border Crossings Are at Sustained HighsFor the second year in a row, the number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border surpassed two million, according to government data released this month.
The 2022 fiscal year set a record of 2.2 million illegal border crossings.
Shifting U.S. policies, global migration patterns and changing migrant demographics all factor into the high levels of illegal border crossings of the past few years.
Since then, the number of illegal border crossings has increased every month, and border patrol agents made nearly 220,000 apprehensions in September alone.
They accounted for the third-most illegal border crossings in the past year, after Mexicans and Guatemalans.
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