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Border Patrol Apprehended 851,000 People In Fiscal Year 2019, Report Says

Ashe Schow
Border Patrol Apprehended 851,000 People In Fiscal Year 2019, Report Says
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Border Patrol agents apprehended a record 851,000 people during the fiscal year 2019, which ran between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019.

My former employer The Washington Examiner reported on exclusively obtained federal data showing that the number of apprehensions included 132,000 arrests in May, which was another record. In September, 40,000 people were arrested illegally crossing into Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.

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