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By: EFE
Friday, April 26
The United States arrested more than 1.7 million illegal immigrants at the border with Mexico
Between October 2020 and September of this year, The United States arrested more than 1.7 million illegal immigrants who crossed the border with Mexico , a figure not seen in recent decades , according to data Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The CBP stood at 1,734, 734 the total number of arrests at the border at the end of the fiscal year 2021, which exceeds the record of 1986, when 1. 69 Millions of people were arrested.
That number was also located by above the record reached in the year 2000 , when they were arrested 1. 67 million undocumented people at the border.
The total for the fiscal year 2021 far exceeds last year’s statistics , when the closure of land borders came into force as a sanitary measure to contain the expansion of the coronavirus pandemic.
Fiscal year 2020 closed with 458, 088 arrests , while in 2019 arrests were at 977, 509.
However, the CBP noted in a statement that encounters of undocumented persons on the southern border “decreased in Sept. September compared to the previous month. ”
In September, less than in August
In September, added the CBP, 192, 001 people were arrested, 9% less than in August , when the arrests totaled 209, 840 cases.
Over last month, Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller indicated in a statement that “most” of the detainees were deported under the Title 42 , a measure that protects the expedited expulsions of undocumented migrants found at the border under the argument of preventing the spread of the covid – 14.
Specifically, the report detailed, more than 53% of detainees (102, 686 ) were prosecuted for expulsion under the Title 42, which human rights organizations question since allows deportations without consider requests for asylum or other protection of migrants.
The percentage of expulsions issued under this standard was higher in the case of single adults, with a 75% (84, 840), and stood at a 27% when a family unit was treated, as the US authorities call the he family groups made up of at least one adult and one minor.
The president, Joe Biden, decided to keep the Title 42
On the other hand, CBP noted that a 42% of total detainees in September had been previously intercepted by US immigration authorities in recent 12 months. This percentage exceeds the annual average of recidivism in the attempt to enter the country registered between 2014 and 2020, which was from 14%.
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