Border Boom! Migrant Encounters Up 33% at Southern Border in July [Details]

Biden’s border is on fire.

According to a report from CBS News, border encounters were up 33% in July after dropping to a two-year low in June; officials processed migrants 183,503 last month.

From CBS News:

Border Patrol agents recorded 132,652 apprehensions of migrants who entered the U.S. unlawfully in between ports of entry in July, compared to nearly 100,000 such apprehensions in June. Moreover, U.S. immigration authorities processed 50,851 migrants at legal ports of entry, a record high, mostly under a system that allows asylum-seekers in Mexico to use a phone app to request appointments to enter the U.S.

The sharpest increase in unlawful crossings occurred in Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, a sprawling and remote region that covers most of Arizona’s border with Mexico and parts of the Sonoran Desert, where temperatures have reached 110 degrees every day this summer. Border Patrol recorded nearly 40,000 apprehensions there in July, a record for the sector.

Border Patrol apprehensions rose across several demographics last month, especially among families traveling with children, a population that poses significant operational challenges for U.S. officials due to legal limits on the detention of minors. Border Patrol agents processed more than 60,000 migrant parents and children traveling as families in between ports of entry last month, nearly doubling June’s tally.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents are seeing a spike in crossings along the Arizona-Mexico border.

“We have seen the human smugglers’ attempts to direct migrants toward that, and advertising to people that it is somehow an area that they can expect greater success crossing into the country,” one CBP official said. “That is not true.”

Now is not the time to be selling off valuable border wall materials, @POTUS. https://t.co/rfxfltIfDu

— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) August 21, 2023