The March total trims out the highest month in 2019, during the most recent border crisis. In May 2019, Border Patrol arrested 144,000 people between ports of entry.
“The border is wide open … it’s not secure. Drugs are pouring in and criminal aliens are pouring in right now,” Morgan said during a press conference on the bank of the Rio Grande on March 30.
In his first press conference since his inauguration, President Joe Biden on March 25 said he aims to “rebuild the system that can accommodate the — what is happening today.”
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The administration has initiated several holding facilities for illegal immigrants, especially to help the increase in children crossing alone. The San Diego Convention Center is currently holding 500 children, while another 500 were sent to a site on Fort Bliss on March 30. In total, more than 12,000 children are being held by CBP and Health and Human Services.
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When questioned about the surge in illegal crossings, Biden said: “I like to think it’s because I’m a nice guy, but it’s not. It’s because of what’s happened every year.”
Morgan said the current uptick can’t be explained away as a normal seasonal increase.
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“They created this crisis and they’re trying to spin and blame everybody but themselves,” Morgan said. “The only thing that’s really been put out there that’s honest is that we’re going to see numbers that we haven’t seen in over 20 years.”
In a media call on March 26, a senior Border Patrol official said that 85 percent of the 2,200 individuals within family units who were apprehended the day prior were released into the United States.
The official said that if a parent brings a child under the age of 7, they are automatically delivered into the interior rather than being suspended under the Title 42 health emergency provision.
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Morgan said CBP had provided “exhaustive briefings” to Biden’s transition team to inform them of an “unmitigated crisis” if Biden dropped the Migrant Protection Protocol program and the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Northern Triangle countries.
“We told them that again and again. We told them that the surge numbers would skyrocket and the Border Patrol facilities would be overwhelmed.”
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