The number of migrants arrested at the southern border has plummeted in recent weeks to the lowest levels seen in President Joe Biden’s three years in office, easing for the moment a crisis that has touched every part of the United States.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) divulged during a House Appropriations Committee hearing this week that Border Patrol agents stationed along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico boundary made an average of 3,800 arrests per day over the past three weeks, a figure divided across March and April.
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