U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehensions on the Southwest border were up around 25% between February and March, even as migrant encounters at the border remain at historic lows.
CBP reports 8,268 apprehensions in March at the U.S.-Mexico border, up from 6,598 the month before.
That number represents about 1,000 more apprehensions than in March of last year, but remains far below peaks in previous years, which reached well past 100,000 per month.
The number of apprehensions on the Southwest border began to decline significantly in the last months of the Biden administration.
In the Tucson sector, there were around 400 more apprehensions in March than February of this year. CBP reports that sector had the second highest number of apprehensions in March after the Rio Grande Valley sector.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego called on his fellow lawmakers to reform the nation’s immigration laws to protect long-time undocumented residents who were brought to the country as children. -
Pinal County leaders say the top local prosecutor having partnered with ICE is weakening his office’s ability to try local cases. -
Federal agents are investigating the deaths of six people thought to be immigrants found inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the border with Mexico in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday as a "potential human smuggling event." -
Border czar Tom Homan said at a Phoenix expo on Tuesday that he’ll “flood” states and cities with ICE agents if they try to resist deportation policies. -
Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes determined Pima County is allowed to restrict Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity on county property, an opinion that drew a swift rebuke from Republican lawmakers.
