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U.S. border patrol agents detain immigrants in the US state of New Mexico.
This is the highest number ever recorded. The United States has released several prisoners along the border with Mexico in the past 12 months. More than 1.7 million immigrants.
Of these, more than a million They were deported to Mexico Or to the countries of their birth, according to US customs and border security data.
Agents They stopped ImmigrantFrom more than 160 countries.
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Recently, pictures of border agents on horseback chasing immigrants to the United States have caused controversy.
The The fame of President Joe Biden He was immersed in opinion polls, partly as a result of his immigration policy.
Only 35% of Americans agreed he handled the issue.
This was revealed in a poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Public Affairs Research Center earlier this month.
Biden pledges more humanitarian immigration policy than his predecessor Donald TrumpBut the US-Mexico border is in deep crisis for the presidency.
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Arrest figures for fiscal 2021, which ended in September, are the highest since 2000.
That year, more than 1.6 million immigrants were detained along the U.S.-Mexico border.
But since the records began in the 1960s, This number never reached 1.7 million.
“The Large number of discharges during infections It has made a number of attempts to cross the border with more immigrants than usual, “said US Customs and Border Protection.
Unsupported children
Those who attempted to enter the United States illegally They are mainly from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Of all those detained, adults traveling without a large category of children: more than 1.1 million (or 64%).
At the same time, U.S. officials said they had discovered more 145,000 sub-children, A registration number.
Nearly 11,000 of these children were in government custody at the end of October.
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These days the US government receives a large number of immigrants arriving at the border.
Reports of the BBC investigation of the Fort Bliss Detention Center in Texas were released earlier this year Sexual abuse, Covit and Bane eruptions.
Too much Hungry children Storms of uncooked meat and sand kept young people trapped in desert tent camps.
According to Republicans, Biden’s promises are the reason for the increase in numbers A process leading to citizenship For immigrants.
Biden faced the question this week Why didn’t you go to the border.
The White House press secretary told reporters Friday that he went there when the president campaigned for Barack Obama’s vice president in 2008.
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