"Unprecedented" number of migrants crossed U.S. border in July

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The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol apprehended over 210,000 migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in July, a number Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called “unprecedented.”

Many asylum-seeking migrants from Central America were sent back to Mexico under the controversial Title 42, that allows border agents to quickly expel most migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border because of the pandemic.

Many expelled migrants currently are living in tents in towns like Reynosa, Mexico.

A top DHS official said only 16,000 migrants have been given humanitarian exemptions under the Biden administration, a tiny fraction of the nearly 500,000 migrants encountered at the border since February.

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