The border encounters have been a political problem for President Biden….
(Texas and other Red State Governor’s sending state police to the Southern Border to do a function only the Feds are authorised to do….Politics)
Republicans had be pounding him on his immigration policy….
Progressives also , they want the Biden admin to the continuance of using a Trump rule that allows quick migrant turn arounds based on the pandemic.
But one will not hear much on the subject if the border crossing decline I’d imagine ….
Apprehensions of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border dropped significantly in January, a sign that regional efforts to deter migration are slowing the northward movement of people.
U.S. authorities recorded 153,941 migrant encounters in January, 14 percent fewer than the 179,219 encounters registered in December.
The border saw drops in the numbers throughout all demographic groups — families, single adults and unaccompanied minors — and among most national origin groups, with the exception of Mexican nationals.
U.S. border officials encountered 59,846 Mexican nationals at the southwest border in January, 16 percent more than the 51,462 encountered in December, but still fewer than the monthly totals during the summer of 2021, and from September through November of that year.
A large majority of Mexican nationals encountered at the border — 52,923 — were processed under Title 42, the Trump-era rule that allows U.S. authorities to immediately expel migrants encountered at the border citing pandemic-related sanitary protections….
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Combined, apprehensions of migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador totaled 31,414, the lowest full-month number since President Bidentook office.
And apprehensions of migrants from other parts of the world also dropped significantly in January, to 62,681, down 21 percent from 79,729 in December.
That decrease marked the first reduction in apprehensions of people from beyond Mexico and Central America during the Biden administration….