US recorded more than 1.6 million southern border arrests last year, highest on record
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US Border Patrol made nearly 1.66 million arrests for unlawful crossings on the US-Mexico border over the past year, the highest annual number of apprehensions on record, according to year-end data released by the agency Friday.
In September, the border agency made 185,515 arrests, bringing the total to 1,659,206 during fiscal year 2021, which runs from October through September, data shows.
The previous record was 1.64 million border arrests in 2000, according to available southern border data dating back to 1960.
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