WASHINGTON
Arrests of migrants along the United States-Mexico border hit an all-time high in 2022 with more than 2.2 million so far, according to statistics released Monday, Sept. 19, by the Office of Customs and Border Protection (OAPF). . . ) American.
Data shows that 2,242,413 irregular migrants have been arrested so far in the current fiscal year. This comes amid an annual increase since 2017, with the exception of 2020 when much of the world went into lockdown due to COVID-19.
According to official figures, in August OAPF agents arrested more than 203,000 people attempting to enter the United States illegally from Mexico. That’s an increase of 1.7% from July.
About 22 percent of those arrested have been detained at least once in the past year, the bureau said.
US officials have blamed “failed communist regimes” for the situation, with more than 55,000 arrests of people from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba in August, a 175% increase from the same month year-on-year.
OAPF Commissioner Chris Magnus said the three nations are “driven by a new wave of migration in the Western Hemisphere, including the recent increase in fears at the United States’ southwestern border.”
“At the same time, the number of migrants arriving from Mexico and North Central America has declined for the third straight month as the Biden-Harris administration works with our partners in the region to address the root causes of migration and facilitate repatriation and thousands Get smugglers off the streets,” Magnus said in a statement.
“More people found illegally staying at the border will be expelled or deported this year than in any previous year,” he added.
*Translated by Aicha Sandoval Alaguna.
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