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Border Patrol agents made 10,000 migrant apprehensions Wednesday, the third day in a row to surpass that threshold as border crossings continue to surge ahead of the end of Title 42, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources told Fox News.
This week has seen the highest daily totals ever recorded for Border Patrol. Monday and Tuesday also saw historic numbers of over 10,000 a day.
Currently, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has approximately 26,000 migrants in federal custody. Capacity across the southern border is about 19,000 and multiple sectors are well over capacity right now.
Fox is told that the priority right for the agency now is avoiding images of overcrowding and processing migrants as fast as possible. Authorities earlier this week green lit “safe” mass street releases if CBP and NGO partners are unable to hold them. It means that the largest wave of mass releases in history has already begun and will continue in the coming days.
The releases come as the Biden administration is ending the Title 42 public health order late Thursday. The order has allowed authorities to rapidly expel migrants due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 46% of all encounters resulted in a Title 42 expulsion.
With that order ending, migrants have surged to the border in the belief that they are more likely to be released into the U.S. That belief appears to be at least partially supported by the plans for mass releases by the administration. However, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said that the belief is based on misinformation, and has promised that those who enter illegally and who do not take advantage of the lawful expanded asylum pathways made available by the administration will be removed from the country…
