EXCLUSIVE — Border Patrol agents arrested nearly twice as many illegal immigrants in August as in June, spelling disaster for the Biden administration that had touted declining border numbers as a policy success.
Initial numbers from inside Customs and Border Protection showed 182,401 people were apprehended after illegally entering the country last month. Roughly 179,000 of the 182,401 came across the southern border with Mexico, according to three U.S. officials who shared information with the Washington Examiner ahead of its normal release weeks after the month's end.
At the southern border alone, the estimated 179,000 apprehensions were far above 99,539 in June and 132,652 in July. It also spells trouble for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who was given a short-lived reprieve from congressional Republicans' fury over the high number of border crossings after arrests dipped earlier this summer. The House Homeland Security Committee is halfway through a six-part hearing series examining the state of the border under Mayorkas's tenure.
Aside from the increase in total arrests, the number of families crossing was the biggest shift in demographics. Nationwide, 93,403 immigrants crossed the border and claimed to be part of a family — the highest number seen in Border Patrol's 99-year existence. “This Administration continues to lead the largest expansion of lawful pathways in decades, which has reduced irregular migration while facilitating safe, orderly, and humane management of our borders," a DHS spokesperson said in an email Friday that did not dispute the leaked border numbers."But as with every year, the U.S.
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