[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 153,941 migrant encounters at the southwestern border for January 2021
- It's a 14% decrease after the agency registered 178,840 interdictions in December 2021
- There have been 672,301 encounters in the first four months on fiscal year 2022 after 1,734,686 were reported in fiscal year 2021
- 78,486 people were expelled to Mexico under the Title 42 immigration order, a Trump-era policy that the former Republican president enforced in March 2020
- The measure allows CBP to expel migrants under a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health order that deems them a health risk under COVID-19
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