
CBP projects 184,000 migrant children will cross border in fiscal year 2021
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is projecting that as many as 184,000 unaccompanied children could reach the border in the fiscal year 2021 -- the latest insight into the dramatic and continuing migrant crisis facing the Biden administration.
While only a projection, if accurate it would be the highest number of UACs on record, and more than twice the 76,020 encountered during the 2019 border crisis -- during which the Trump administration was hammered for its handling of the crisis and detention of children. The Biden administration has declined to call the surge in numbers -- set to eclipse the 2019 crisis on multiple metrics -- a "crisis," describing it instead as a "challenge" and blaming the numbers on deteriorating conditions in Central America and the overwhelming situation at the border on the Trump administration’s dismantling of legal asylum pathways.More Related News