The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that the number of attempted crossings at the U.S. southern border is expected to reach its highest level in two decades.
The statement coincided with an effort by Biden administration officials to defend the White House’s immigration policies and discourage migrants from attempting to cross into the United States amid a surge of immigrant children at the border.
“We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement Tuesday morning.
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