While the Biden administration still continues to deny that there is a crisis at the border, a newly updated chart by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) gives a more clear perspective of the situation at hand.
On Wednesday, Nick Miroff of The Washington Post tweeted an updated chart from CBP to reflect the surge of over 172,000 migrants apprehended in March — the most in nearly two decades.
Miroff claimed that CBP had to “redo it” to “stretch the y-axis” because the blue line showing the surge couldn’t fit on the initial chart. He then included an article detailing the latest numbers.
As reported by The Washington Post:
“During the busiest month along the Mexico border in nearly two decades, U.S. authorities took more than 172,000 migrants into custody in March, according to enforcement statistics released Thursday that provide a stark measure of the challenges facing the Biden administration.
“The total included 18,890 teens and children who arrived without parents, a record quantity that overwhelmed U.S. shelter capacity and produced crisis-level crowding inside government border tents. The March statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show the fastest-growing group were members of family units: 52,904 were taken into custody in March, up from 19,246 in February.
“The increase last month was so large that it did not fit on the y-axis of the CBP chart that tracks changes in monthly enforcement data. The figures confirm preliminary data reported by The Washington Post and other news organizations last week.”
Here are copies of charts Miroff tweeted taken from CBP’s website and his analysis of them:
NEW: CBP has published March numbers showing 172,331 taken into custody, the most in nearly two decades.
The blue line on the graph below is 2021. CBP had to redo it chart to stretch the Y axis. Our story https://t.co/EgrwOA0aIn pic.twitter.com/CHdhK3nbgT
— Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) April 8, 2021
Increase in family unit members last month was steepest — 178 percent — but levels remain below 2019 pic.twitter.com/AhlRbALPT6
— Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) April 8, 2021
CBP says it used Title 42 order to expel 103,900 in March, “28 percent of whom were individuals who had been previously expelled from the United States under the same authority.”
“Title 42 expulsions represented 60 percent of the total encounters for the month,” per CBP release.
— Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) April 8, 2021
This graph, showing single adult apprehensions (blue line), is clear illustration of impact of Title 42 on recidivism, as border crossers (mostly men) try again and again, while also driving up “got away” incidents, now close to 1k per day pic.twitter.com/RBgtxy2YU6
— Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) April 8, 2021
