Border Patrol apprehends over 10,000 migrants a day ahead of Title 42's end, highest ever recorded

Border Patrol agents have apprehended over 10,000 migrants on multiple days so far this week, ahead of the end of Title 42 later this week -- it marks a new record.

Fox is told that the numbers are expected to keep increasing ahead of the end of Title 42 order on Thursday. Officials have been preparing for months for an expected surge in migration across the border once the order ends. The order has been used since March 2020 by both the Trump and Biden administration to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants quickly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, nearly half of all migrant encounters ended in a Title 42 expulsion.  Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.

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Officials and lawmakers have feared that migrants, believing they are more likely to be admitted to the U.S. once the order ends, will head to the border in numbers not even seen during the more than two-year migrant crisis so far. Officials had previously painted a worst-case scenario of up to 14,000 encounters a day.