Congress must fight for transparency on the southern border

Published August 17, 2022 12:00am ET



Almost 200,000 migrants were arrested after crossing the southern border in July. That puts the Border Patrol on track for a record-high 2 million arrests this fiscal year.

However, as bad as that number is, we do not know how many of those migrants were released by President Joe Biden into the United States — and we may never know unless Congress forces Biden to tell us.

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