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The US southern border had long struggled with implementing policies that aim to prevent immigration-related tragedies. With a decline in unlawful immigration from Mexico, the crisis predominantly concerned increased immigration from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA), encompassing Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
US Customs and Border Protection encounters with migrants along the US-Mexico border hit all-time record highs in each of the first three years of Harris’ tenure in charge of stemming the crisis ...
Immigration has been a political vulnerability for Biden, who has faced fierce criticism from Republicans and even some members of his own party for the situation at the US-Mexico border.
Immigration to the United States over time by region. In 2022 there was 46,118,600 immigrant residents in the United States or 13.8% of the US population according to the American Immigration Council. The number of undocumented or illegal immigrants stood at 9,940,700 in 2022 making up 21.6% of all immigrants or 3% of the total US population. [1]
The US began experiencing a massive surge in immigration starting in 2021 following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers reporting nearly 2 ...
The 2014 American immigration crisis was a surge in unaccompanied children and women from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) seeking entrance to the United States in 2014. According to U.S. law, an unaccompanied alien child refers to a person under 18 years of age, who has no lawful immigration status in the U.S., and who does not ...
Border Patrol counts for 2001 and 2002 show a small decrease in the number of deaths in those years compared to 2000." [19] The number of deaths of illegal immigrants along the border has increased on a regular, yearly basis since the middle 1990s, particularly in the state of Arizona. [6]
The El Paso-Juárez area became the focal point of the migrant humanitarian crisis, though the influx of migrants was impacting all of the U.S.-Mexico border. Immigration: Political battleground