Customs and Border Protection encountered more illegal aliens at the Southwest border in fiscal year 2021 than in any of the previous 61 years on record, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies.
Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,659,206 illegal aliens from October 2020 to September 2021.
President Joe Biden topped the previous record despite Border Patrol‘s low apprehension rate at the southwest border during the beginning of fiscal year 2021.
President Donald Trump maintained a more secure border during the first four months of last fiscal year.
Border Patrol apprehensions in September 2021 jumped more than 330% from the same month last year.
Trump’s administration arrested fewer than 58,000 illegal aliens at the southwest border, while the Biden administration’s open-border policies caused that number to spike to 192,001 last month, Just the News reported.
CBP’s statistics also show that the Biden administration does not have policies in place to deter illegal aliens from entry or reentry.
Of Border Patrol’s encounters in September 2021, 26% were with illegal aliens who had tried to enter the United States in the past year.
That number actually fell from August, when more than one in three illegal aliens who were arrested at the southwest border had previously tried to illegally enter the American homeland.
The previous arrest record at the Southwest border was set in 2000 when Border Patrol agents arrested 1,643,679 people who had illegally invaded the United States via the southwest border.
Total apprehensions had previously surpassed the 1.659 million mark in both 1986 and 2000, but that included arrests along the Canadian border and the East and West coasts.
