House Homeland GOP hits Biden admin for ‘celebrating’ June border data, as fiscal year nears record high
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House Homeland Republican Chairman Mark Green is accusing the Biden administration of "celebrating" numbers at the southern border, despite them remaining high for the year.
The numbers are high, compared to pre-2021 numbers. (June’s numbers are still higher than any month of the 2019 border crisis.) However, they mark the lowest at the border since February 2021 and a sharp drop from the 206,702 seen in May and 211,999 in April. A decrease is particularly unusual during the summer months. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
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Administration officials have tied the drop in encounters to measures introduced by the Biden administration as Title 42 ended in May. Those include dramatically expanded legal pathways -- including allowing 1,450 migrants in a day through ports of entry via the CBP One App -- and a rule to limit asylum for those who enter illegally.