Meanwhile on Monday a group of 133 Republicans in Congress are questioning Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' 'suitability for office' as they double down on claims that he is 'dismantling the security' of the southern border.

There were nearly 60,000 more encounters in March than February, when 165,000 tried to cross.Ĭustoms and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are warning that they could run out of funds as early as early July if migration skyrockets like projections predict once Title 42 is lifted. The last time border agents encountered more migrants was in February and March of 2000. The March figures show the highest number of crossings in a single month since President Biden took office. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) submitted figures to a court revealing that 221,303 migrants attempted to enter the country unlawfully last month, before the expected onslaught triggered by the end of Title 42. The number of migrant crossings at the Mexican border surged to the highest number in over two decades last month, surpassing 200,000 for the third time of the Biden administration. 'If we just dial it back a few years to kind of what we inherited here, the former president invested billions of dollars in a border wall that was never going to work,' she said Monday.