Illegal immigration continues to increase as the Biden administration seeks to end Title 42 expulsions that began during the pandemic.
Illegal immigration has broken records in recent years, and while with those surges authorities have reported increases in border deaths, an agency reports that the actual number may be much higher.
A federal judge is preventing the U.S. government from ending the pandemic-era policy allowing border officials to expel illegal aliens on public health grounds.
In April, the federal government released 110,000 illegal aliens into the country on parole or via notices to appear.
Border agents encountered about 38,000 unaccompanied minors in the first half of Fiscal Year 2022, which began in October.
The policy was instituted by the Trump administration and continued under Biden as a measure to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Half of those arrested in the U.S. by border agents were slated for expulsion via Title 42 enforcement, a policy set to end on May 23.
There have been almost a million encounters with illegal aliens and unaccompanied minors in the U.S. since the start of the fiscal year.
There have been more than 410,000 illegal aliens apprehended in Texas border patrol sectors since October.
Shortly after he took office in January, President Biden ended work on former President Trump’s border wall system.
The State of Texas has commenced border wall construction in Starr County as part of its response to illegal immigration.
Abbott said that “progress is being made on our border wall” and posted images of a barrier made of a fence with razor wire.
