More than 10,000 migrants cross border Wednesday: CBP sources – By Ali Bradley, Steven Joachim (News Nation) / Sept 21, 2023
- 10,228 migrants crossed the border Wednesday
- Border crossings have been steadily going up this past week
- These numbers rival ones seen before the end of Title 42 in May
(NewsNation) — More than 10,000 migrants crossed the southern border into the United States Wednesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources tell NewsNation.
Numbers like that haven’t been seen since before the end of the pandemic-era policy Title 42, which allowed officials to turn migrants away on public health grounds. Before Title 42’s expiration May 11, illegal crossings started to surge, although shortly after the policy was lifted, they dropped dramatically.
Since then, though, crossings have gone back up. For the past few days, they’ve steadily risen.
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