Assistant Secretary Blas Nunez-Neto said the problems have been long-standing, though he admitted illegal crossings have soared since President Biden took office. “It is significantly higher,” he told the House Homeland Security Committee.
, Texas Republican, on whether that sounded like a successful border, he acknowledged it did not.
Customs and Border Protection says Border Patrol agents were nabbing about 3,400 people a day — down from more than 10,000 in the days just before the end of Title 42. That means they aren’t jumping the border and making Border Patrol agents chase them down, Mr. Nunez- Indeed, it’s likely that many of those are what’s known as “voluntary returns,” where a migrant is caught and agrees to be pushed back across the border without formal deportation. They are then free to try to enter again.
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