Unlawful crossings along U.S.-Mexico border set a record for June, despite drop from May

Despite a significant decrease from May, apprehensions of migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally last month set a record for any June with available data, government figures disclosed on Friday show.

U.S. Border Patrol reported processing migrants 191,898 times along the southern border in June, a nearly 14% drop from May, when the agency carried out over 222,000 apprehensions, an all-time monthly high. The previous record for June was reported last year, when Border Patrol carried out 178,649 arrests.

Another 15,518 migrants were processed by U.S. authorities at government ports of entry, where the Biden administration has been admitting some asylum-seekers it has deemed to be vulnerable, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics, which were submitted to a federal court in Texas.