WASHINGTON—A historic surge in Joe Biden’s immigration presidency led to the attacks as he ran for reelection, with Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans blaming Democrats for the number of swellings of others crossing the U. S. -Mexico border.
Now, after campaigning on promises to secure the border and deport undocumented immigrants, President-elect Trump will take over the workplace on Monday amid a sharp drop at the borders.
Here are five key facts about migration at the U. S. -Mexico border in years.
When Trump left the workplace in January 2021, other people were apprehended at the southern border more than 78,000 times this month, according to U. S. Customs and Border Protection figures. U. S. This compares to about 96,000 stops last month. The highest by month overall, the Biden administration was about 302,000 in December 2023, and Trump’s highest overall was just over 144,000 in May 2019.
These numbers come with arrivals at land access ports, where asylum seekers are waiting for appointments to enter legally, as well as those who have jammed a crossing illegally along the border. The figures for November and December showed, for the first time, more migrants processed through ports of access than those arrested after entering the United States illegally.
In June, Biden’s administration began preventing migrants from seeking asylum along the U. S. -Mexico border. The restrictions do not apply to those entering official ports of access or other lawful means.
For parts of the year beyond the year, San Diego has the most sensible destination for illegal crossings along the U. S. -Mexico border for the first time in decades. The replacement reflects how smuggling routes, which were consistent for many years, have begun to replace every few months since 2021. This is partly due to the post-pandemic build-up in global migration to the United States
San Diego’s domain saw 10,117 border arrests in December, the second-highest after Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, even though that’s down 70% from a year earlier.
In the weeks leading up to Trump’s inauguration, peak regions across the border saw little replacement in migrant arrivals. But Border Patrol leader Agent Gloria Chavez of South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley sector, which posts the number of local arrests on social media weekly, reported 1,206 migrant arrests on the last weekend of December and 1,276 the previous weekend. This is double the number of recent weeks of less than six hundred arrests.
“This is the first quantitative indicator of a building on migration since the U. S. election. “”The U. S. Election Day Advocacy Organization has increased expectations, so far unfulfilled, that many migrants are possibly rushing into the United States on Election Day,” said Adam Isacson, director, director, director, of defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America’s advocacy organization. he wrote in a recent newsletter.
This trend appeared to have slowed in the new year, with Chavez reporting 669 arrests on the weekend ending on the fifth and 699 arrests on the weekend on January 12.
Isacson noted that in 2016, asylum seekers rushed into the U. S. U. S. Before Trump began his first term. But border policies are different now, and Biden’s management regulations already prevent other people who enter illegally from qualifying for asylum.
“Her only hope is not to be arrested,” he said. Some other people might try, and if they succeed, they probably wouldn’t show up in the numbers. “
According to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Council of the Left, tens of thousands of migrants are waiting in Mexico.
“Today, it’s harder for migrants to get to the border and seek asylum than at any time in U. S. fashion history,” he said. “Despite this massively higher infrastructure at the border, the United States continues to remain, in the eyes of others around the world, a position of protection and security. “
The United States has traditionally attracted migrants from its southern neighbor. Although Mexicans still make up the largest proportion of the entry, arrivals from other people from other countries have experienced over time. During Trump’s first term, other people from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador flocked to the U. S. border because of instability in their home countries.
This began to be replaced around 2019. Through Biden’s presidency, more other people began arriving from Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia. People also came here from an extra side: Afghanistan, Ukraine, and China.
The San Diego domain has what is the ultimate foreign frontier, attracting other people from all over the world.
Chinese migrant jobs and the absence of the repressive government have begun to arrive in record numbers, from just 949 arrests in fiscal year 2022 to more than 37,000 fiscal years.
The number began to decline last year after Biden’s administration imposed asylum restrictions and Ecuador began requiring Chinese nationals to have a visa to fly there.
The government’s operation to detain other people who violate immigration legislation has seen wild swings in recent years. During Trump’s first term, the population maintained through immigration and customs enforcement reached all-time highs of more than 55,000 other people.
As Covid-19 spread through lockdowns, killing detainees, courts ordered some immigration detention intermissions to their populations. The detention population reached a low of about 13,000 people in February 2021, the month after Biden. Los Angeles remained under a covid-era court order that barred new inmates, reducing the facility’s population from about 2,000 beds to just two people. )
As of Dec. 29, more than 39,000 other people (most of whom have no criminal records) are being held in civilian immigration detention facilities, according to TRAC, a nonpartisan knowledge studies organization. This number has remained strong beyond the year, usually, generally, overall, fluctuating between 35,000 and just under 40,000 since 2023.
The numbers are expected to recede after Trump takes office as he works to fulfill his promise of mass deportations.
Immigrants placed in removal proceedings can argue their case before an immigration judge. With the historic arrivals of migrants, the Biden administration’s immigration court backlog now has more than 3. 7 million cases pending, according to TRAC.
Biden inherited an Immigration Court formula that was already lagging behind with 1. 3 million cases. When Trump took over the workplace in 2017, just over 542,000 instances were pending.
In fiscal year 2024, immigration courts closed more than 900,000 cases, most of them for a year. New instances have fallen sharply, fewer immigrants are processed at the border.
Los Angeles County has about 115,000 cases, the second-highest after Miami-Dade County. Experts say the backlog cannot be eliminated without many immigration judges and immigration staff, as well as systemic reforms.
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