(VitalNews.org) – Unlawful migrant crossings have continued to slow and are at their lowest fifth consecutive month. The migrant crossings are now at the lowest level since the fall time four years ago.
U.S. Border Patrol agents reported over fifty thousand migrant apprehensions along the Mexico-U.S. border in July. In comparison, December of last year saw a record of two hundred and fifty thousand apprehensions within the month in a record-breaking spike.
The border has been seeing a decrease in immigrant crossings for months now. United States officials have said that this decrease is due to a proclamation by President Joe Biden that has made it harder to access the United States asylum system.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, “This is the product of a number of actions this administration has taken.” He continued to say that this includes “the president’s executive action, which restricted asylum in between the ports of entry, cutting out the smugglers.”
The Biden administration put a fifteen hundred person threshold on border crossings in order to calm the crisis. This is a noticeable difference since December, the highest month, saw eight thousand crossings per day.
Biden’s proclamation has shut down asylum processing between ports of entry making it easy for U.S. Border officials to quickly return migrants to their home countries.
Originally, many of the migrants were able to stay in the United States for years as they waited for their cases to be heard, but this has changed as United States officials have been told not to ask if the migrants fear harm if they are deported.
They also have made the requirements more strict, so fewer people are able to get through the system. All of this has helped to contribute to the drop in migrants.
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