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Illegal immigrants wait to be taken by Border Patrol to a processing facility to begin their asylum-seeking process in Eagle Pass, Texas, on June 25, 2023. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images
The number of times the U.S. Border Patrol arrested people illegally crossing the U.S.–Mexico border increased by 33.3 percent from June to July, according to government data Friday.
It marks a reversal from when the number of illegal encounters fell from May to June.
