Washington Examiner – by Anna Giaritelli
Border Patrol agents working along the United States-Mexico border took into custody approximately 851,000 people in the U.S. government’s fiscal 2019, marking the highest number of arrests since 2007, according to federal data exclusively obtained by the Washington Examiner.
But the 40,000 people taken into custody in September is less than one-third of the 132,000 arrests made in May at the height of a surge of illegal immigrants. Continue reading “Most illegal crossings in 12 years: Border Patrol took 851,000 into custody during fiscal 2019”