Washington Times · Jan 21, 2023
DHS sets new record for illegal immigration at border in December
Migrants wait to be processed after crossing the border Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, near Yuma, Arizona. The Biden administration on Thursday launched an online appointment system for migrants to be exempt from limits on seeking asylum, its latest major step ...Homeland Security set a new record for chaos at the southern border in December with more than 250,000 encounters with illegal immigrants.
Border Patrol agents also detected 17 illegal immigrants whose identities were on the terrorist watch list, and Customs and Border Protection as a whole set a new record for fentanyl surging into the country.
The grim numbers were powered by large numbers of Cubans and Nicaraguans jumping the border.