The United States publishes the highest number of immigrant detentions ever recorded on the border with Mexico

It is the highest number ever recorded. USA published a number of detainees along its border with Mexico in the last 12 months. more than 1.7 million migrants.

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Of these, more than a million they were expelled to Mexico or to their countries of origin, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.

The agents they detained migrants from more than 160 countries.

The President Joe Biden’s popularity in opinion polls he has been sinking, partly as a result of his immigration policy.

Only 35% of Americans approved of his handling of the issue.

This was revealed by a survey by the Associated Press-NORC Public Affairs Research Center earlier this month.

Biden promised a more humane immigration policy than his predecessor Donald TrumpBut the U.S.-Mexico border has been mired in crisis for much of the Democratic presidency.

The arrest figures for fiscal year 2021, which ended in September, are the highest since 2000.

That year, more than 1.6 million migrants were detained at the US-Mexico border.

But since records began in the 1960s, the figure had never reached 1.7 million.

“The large number of expulsions during the pandemic It has contributed to a larger than usual number of migrants making multiple attempts to cross the border, ”said US Customs and Border Protection.

Recently, images of border agents on horseback chasing migrants in the US generated controversy. GETTY IMAGES

Unaccompanied children

Those who tried to enter the United States illegally they were mainly from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Of all those detained, the largest category were adults traveling without children: more than 1.1 million (or 64%).

The US government is receiving a growing number of migrant arrivals at the border these days. REUTERS

At the same time, US authorities said they found more than 145,000 unaccompanied children, a record number.

Almost 11,000 of those children were still in government custody at the end of this month of October.

A BBC investigation of the Fort Bliss detention center in Texas earlier this year revealed reports of sexual abuse, covid and lice outbreaks.

Too hungry kids Served undercooked meat and sandstorms engulfing desert tent camps where young people were being held.

For Republicans, the increase in numbers is due to Biden’s promises to establish a process that leads to citizenship for immigrants.

Biden has faced questioning this week about why you have not visited the border.

The White House press secretary told reporters on Friday that the president traveled there in 2008 when he was campaigning to be Barack Obama’s vice president.

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