Illegal Border Crossings Will Be Highest in 20 Years: Homeland Security Secretary

Border Patrol agents apprehend a busload of illegal immigrants in Penitas, Texas, on March 10. 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The number of migrants who are illegally entering into the United States via the southern border has spiked during President Joe Biden’s first two months in office, said the head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday.

“We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.