It shouldn’t be around forever, but right now this administration does not have a plan. “Title 42 was put in place because of a public health emergency.

Republican states have sued to stop the lifting of the order, while a number of moderate Democrats have called on the administration to change course. The coming ending of Title 42, and the predicted migrant surge, has led to significant bipartisan pushback. The number of illegals arrested on a daily basis during the month of March was 7,000 to 8,000.īiden’s DHS estimates that number will swell to 18,000 a day if Title 42 is lifted. If DHS estimates of illegal entries once public health rule Title 42 is lifted are anywhere near correct, the United States - and especially southern border states - are going to be in a world of hurt. In the immortal words of The Jazz Singer Al Jolson, often quoted by Ronald Reagan, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” This means the first six months of FY 22 are up 79% over the first 6 months of record setting FY 21. In the first six months of the record setting FY 21, there were only 570,826 encounters. There have now been 1,026,460 encounters in the first 6 months of Fiscal Year 22, which began in October. Now, as the spring and summer months approach, they are already well above 200,000.

While numbers dipped since July, they have remained comparatively high compared to the same months in prior years - never dipping below 150,000. The number is bigger than last year’s high of 213,953 in July and is the third time under Biden that there have been more than 200,000 migrants at the border - which only occurred in two months at the height of the 2021 surge. There were 219,953 illegals arrested at the border in July 2021. The number of illegals arrested at the border in March surpasses any single month during all of 2021.

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