By: EFE Posted Jun 21, 2023, 10:24 am EDT
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP)in English), revealed a report that highlights that the arrests of migrants between points of entry at the southern border of the United States registered a fall of 25% in May compared to the same period last year.
The CBP report highlights that of the 169,244 arrests between ports of entry registered this month, more than half occurred before the sanitary regulations known as Title 42on May 12.
This decrease has been attributed by the US authorities to the application of the plan of the Administration of President Joe Biden to manage the border after the end of Title 42, which allowed the expulsion of migrants for sanitary reasons.
“As a result of extensive planning and preparedness efforts, there has been a significant reduction in encounters on the Southwest border,” stands out Troy Miller, Acting CBP Director.
immigration detention
Despite the drop in numbers, the total number of apprehensions at the border so far in fiscal year 2023 is almost 2.1 million. In the entire fiscal year 2022, just over 2.7 million migrants crossed the border, according to CBP data.
In addition, the number of people who presented themselves at points of entry into the country was 35,317, that is, 6,000 more than last month. Of these28,696 used the CBP One app to apply for asylum, which is the main way promoted by the US government to request protection on the southern border.
With the end of Title 42, the US government established new rules for asylum seekers and harsher punishments for migrants who enter irregularly.
Between May 12 and May 31, authorities recorded an average of 3,500 apprehensions a day between points of entry, which translated to a total of 70,000 apprehensions. Between May 1 and May 12 there were almost 100,000.
Mexicans, the majority of migrants
Most of the migrants who crossed the border in May for the first time in the last 12 months – 40% – came from Mexico or from northern Central America. 17% came from Venezuela, while only 0.3% came from Haiti and another 0.3% from Nicaragua.
0.7% of those who crossed the southern border for the first time in the last 12 months, or 907 people, came from Cuba. The figure is notably higher than those of April (281 people) or March (140).
In addition, there were 20% of arrests of migrants who had already tried to cross the border at least once in the last 12 months, six percentage points more than the annual average between 2014 and 2019.
Today it has been known that less than half of adult migrants who were apprehended illegally crossing the southern border of the United States in the last month were able to apply for asylum, according to data provided by the government to a federal court in California.
The figures, which cover the period between May 12 and June 13 of this year, reveal that only 46% of the adults who were arrested at the border were able to overcome the new restrictions on access to asylum, which entered entered into force on May 12.
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