Border crossings along the United States’ southwest border with Mexico saw a decline in June from the previous month but continue to remain high when compared to the past three years.
There were 207,416 land encounters along the southwest border in June, a nearly 14 percent decrease from May’s 240,991 encounters, latest data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) showed. However, the June 2022 encounter number is 9.72 percent higher than June 2021, 527 percent higher than June 2020, and 98.8 percent higher than June 2019. Nationwide total encounters for fiscal year 2022 to date came in at over 2 million.
Of the total June encounters, 26 percent were individuals who had at least one prior encounter in the previous 12 months, which is higher when compared to the average one-year re-encounter rate of 15 percent during the five years between fiscal 2014 and 2019….