More than 2 million migrants were arrested for illegally crossing the southern border in 2021, more than four times the number arrested in 2020 and double the number arrested during both the 2014 and 2019 border crises.

This migrant surge was due entirely to the lenient border enforcement policies of President Joe Biden, including his immediate announcements to end all deportations for 100 days and end President Donald Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy permanently. Biden has since drastically restricted ICE agents’ ability to arrest, detain, and deport even criminal illegal immigrants.