In just three months, US President Joe Biden, who campaigned on what he called predecessor Donald Trump's ‘cruel' policies on migrant children, has seen an unprecedented number of unaccompanied minors enter the country.
Some 19,000 unaccompanied minors are being held by Customs and Border Patrol over the course of March, the largest number ever to be apprehended in a single month. The CBP fears the numbers will continue to climb, and are expecting a whopping 26,000 new arrivals daily by September, according to documents leaked to Axios.
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The number of minor children crossing the border is dwarfed by the total number of attempted new arrivals, however. CBP estimated that in March alone, some 172,000 people were apprehended trying to cross over from Mexico, and that this itself was a huge increase - up 71% from last month's total. Gridlock in the asylum system has led to detainees...
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