Migrants from Central America walk across the Paso del Norte international border bridge from the Mexican side to continue their asylum request in the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. border agents detained nearly 100,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, according to two people familiar with preliminary figures, the highest arrest total for the month of February since 2006.
The figures, which have not been previously reported, show the scope of a growing surge of migrants arriving at the southwest border as U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, seeks to roll back some of the restrictive policies of former President Donald Trump, a Republican.
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Update: Biden confronts mounting humanitarian crisis at the border (Axios)
WNU Editor: People are pouring in from South and Central America to the U.S. because of the ravages of the pandemic and the economic crisis that it has spawn. But from the point of view from the White House, this is not a crisis .... Biden administration facing a ‘challenge’ at Mexico border but not a crisis, DHS chief says (Washington Post).
