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September 20, 2022

U.S. Arrests at Southern Border Top 2 Million, Surpassing Last Year's Record Total
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Back in the United States, new figures show the Biden administration has
arrested more than 2 million people along the U.S.-Mexico border over
the past 11 months. It's by far the fastest rate of arrests at the
southern border in U.S. history, surpassing last year's record total of
1.7 million arrests.


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