Migrants surge as confusion spreads on southern border

Published December 27, 2021 12:00am ET



No one knows how, when, or where the Biden administration will re-implement former President Donald Trump’s Remain in Mexico program, but what is clear is that the surge of migrants illegally crossing the southern border is not going to end on its own, with another 173,600 illegal immigrants arrested this November.

The Biden administration is still well on pace to arrest over 2 million migrants illegally crossing the southern border during his first full year in office, which arrives next month. About half of those arrested have been released into the country, where the Biden administration will make no effort to deport them, even though close to 90% of them will eventually lose their asylum claims.

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