A record 2.47 million migrants were stopped at the southern border in fiscal 2023, with the Tucson sector of the border leading the rest of the nation for the third straight month.
New numbers from Customs and Border Protection show that migrant encounters in the Tucson sector rose from 48,754 in August to 51,001 in September, part of an overall increase from 232,963 to 269,735 along the entire southern border in the same period.
Families stopped at the border continued to a three-year climb, according to CBP. The number of family members rose from 482,962 in fiscal 2022 to 621,311 in fiscal 2023, while the number of single adults encountered was falling, from 1.6 million to 1.3 million. Putzel said one possible reason for the increase in family encounters is that CBP is not currently detaining families but is trying to “quickly process and release families because children are a vulnerable population.”
“As long as this administration maintains the policies that say, ‘If you come to the country illegally, there’s a high probability that you’re going to be released if you come with kids, or if you come as an unaccompanied minor,’ … we’re going to keep seeing this,” Mehlman said. But Ricky Garza, an attorney at Southern Border Communities Coalition, said that while the numbers are important to note, it is more important to consider the the human lives those numbers reflect.
“In reality … policy has changed dozens of different times and I think that what shouldn’t change is our respect for dignity and human rights,” he said.
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