All articles tagged with #border encounters
Record levels of migration are straining the US immigration system, with a surge of encounters at the southern border and arrivals coming from various countries. The perilous journey has led to thousands of deaths, and the backlog of immigration cases has reached 3.3 million. As Congress debates solutions, people arriving often find themselves in unofficial camps along the border, exacerbating the deepening humanitarian crisis.
Border encounters have dropped by 56% since the lifting of Title 42, with an average of 4,400 people crossing the border each day, compared to 10,000 before May 11. The Department of Homeland Security has returned to the use of expedited processing under its Title 8 authorities, which creates a paper trail and comes with a potential five-year bar on reentry. Republican governors have sent their own personnel to the border, but the Biden administration is confident in their ability to conduct border operations in a safe, humane, and secure manner.