CBP releases latest numbers showing 1.4 million migrants entered US lawfully over past 2 years

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its latest study Tuesday, showing amerciable crossings remained debased and level done September, though astir 1.4 cardinal migrants person been allowed to participate the state lawfully nether 2 arguable Biden-Harris administration programs successful little than 2 years.

What is apt the last monthly update earlier Election Day, the CBP dropped its operational statistic connected Tuesday for fiscal twelvemonth 2024, which includes September 2024’s monthly operational update.

"During Fiscal Year 2024, CBP importantly accrued its enforcement efforts and realized a important alteration successful southwest borderline encounters, "Troy A. Miller, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner said. "CBP continued to place and respond to caller threats posed by the transnational transgression organizations profiting from the exploitation of susceptible people, taking unprecedented measures to dismantle and disrupt these operations. We person surged our enforcement efforts to further ace down connected the smuggling of illicit opioids, including fentanyl, and implementing caller measures to disrupt the proviso concatenation of deadly narcotics."

The study credits a proclamation issued by President Biden connected June 5 to unafraid the confederate borderline for what it called a "meaningful alteration successful unlawful borderline crossings – including a much than 55% alteration successful encounters betwixt ports of introduction on the southwest border."

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Migrants hold successful enactment to participate the structure on the confederate border. (Christian Torres Chavez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

CBP besides said successful the study that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed oregon returned implicit 160,000 individuals to implicit 145 countries betwixt June 5 and the extremity of September. During the aforesaid period, the study noted, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operated much than 495 planetary repatriation flights.

CBP besides touted CBP One, a authorities mobile app for migrants seeking asylum astatine the confederate border. The aforesaid app has drawn scrutiny for its deficiency of vetting migrants.

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Signs announcing the CPB One mobile exertion astatine the larboard of introduction on the U.S.-Mexico border. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Between January 2023 and the extremity of September 2024, implicit 852,000 individuals successfully scheduled appointments astatine ports of entry, the study notes.

The apical nationalities of those who were processed with an assignment made done the app were Venezuelan, Cuban, Mexican and Haitian.

Through the extremity of September 2024, implicit 531,000 nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) arrived lawfully connected commercialized flights and were granted parole nether the process.

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Border Patrol picks up a radical of migrants connected the confederate borderline adjacent Sasabe, Ariz. (Justin Hamel/Getty Images)

Specifically, the programme processed implicit 111,000 Cubans, astir 214,000 Haitians, implicit 96,000 Nicaraguans, and astir 121,000 Venezuelans.

The programme was archetypal implemented for Venezuelans successful October 2022, and extended to different nationalities successful January 2023. It allows migrants to usage the CBP One app to participate the U.S. connected impermanent parole for 2 years and person a enactment licence if they walk inheritance checks and person a sponsor. It was portion of the Biden-Harris administration's enlargement of "lawful pathways" to tackle the borderline crisis.

The programme has received furious absorption from Republicans, immoderate of whom person described the medication arsenic moving migrant flights, but nether this program, migrants indispensable signifier their ain travel. Republicans said the programme was an maltreatment of parole, which is constricted to a case-by-case ground for urgent humanitarian reasons oregon important nationalist benefit.

Earlier this month, the Biden-Harris medication said it would not widen the ineligible presumption of hundreds of thousands of migrants who came to the U.S. done the CHNV programme that was halted earlier this twelvemonth due to the fact that of discoveries of fraud successful the program.

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Texas National Guard troops ticker implicit much than 1,000 immigrants who had crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico, Dec. 18, 2023, successful Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)

The White House issued a connection astir CBP’s latest report.

"The information published contiguous by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows that since the President announced caller enforcement actions to unafraid the borderline connected June 4, unlawful borderline crossings person dropped by much than 55% to the lowest levels successful implicit 4 years," White House Spokesperson Angelo Fernández Hernández said. "Encounters betwixt ports of introduction are little than they were during the past respective months of the erstwhile Administration."

Hernández continued to support the statistic portion pointing fingers astatine Republicans.

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"For months, the Biden-Harris Administration worked with a bipartisan radical of Senators to trade a historical bipartisan borderline information statement that would person added thousands of frontline unit to the borderline – but Congressional Republicans voted against that statement doubly – proving that they are much funny successful cynically playing authorities than securing the border," helium said. "The Biden-Harris Administration has taken effectual action, and Republican officials proceed to bash nothing."

Fox News’ Adam Shaw and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.