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Border Crossings: Despite scorching heat, August is record month

By Gregg WendorfAdvance News JournalDespite the oppressive record heat along the U.S.-Mexico border last month, preliminary data released by the Border Patrol, obtained by the Washington Post, showed record numbers of families tried to enter the U.S. in August.According to the Post story, the U.S. Border Patrol (BP) arrested approximately 91,000 immigrants, sans legal papers, who tried to cross the border as part of a family unit. This number exceeds the previous onemonth record set in May 2019.The August record number was the first time the “family demographic” had superseded the “single- adult” number since Biden took office in January ...

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