The U.S.-Mexico border arrested 1.7 million illegal immigrants

According to US media reports, US law enforcement arrested about 1.7 million illegal immigrants at the U.S. and Mexican borders in fiscal 2021, a new record set in fiscal year 2000, highlighting the pressure and embarrassment faced by President Joseph Biden's administration in the fight against illegal immigration.

Fiscal year 2021 began on October 1 of last year and ended on September 30 of this year.

The Washington Post was the first to report the news, using familiar U.S. government sources. Since the beginning of this year, the tide of illegal immigration along the US-Mexico border has continued, and many people have been repatriated and re-crossed the border and arrested again. In August alone, more than 200,000 illegal immigrants were arrested.

During the administration of Biden's predecessor, Republican President Donald Trump, the U.S. government took hundreds of measures to restrict legal and illegal immigration, including forcibly separating families and separating them when illegal immigrants were blocked at the U.S.-Mexico border. These practices have been criticized.

Biden took office as US president in January, pledging to pursue a more "humane" immigration policy than the Trump administration.D.'s. Republican lawmakers are unhappy, arguing that the Biden administration's new policies have caused a surge in illegal border crossers.

Republican Senator Rick Scott asked Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcas to resign on the 20th. Scott tweeted on social media that the U.S. border security situation is volatile and facing a crisis, and Mayokas has lied about it, is unable to take responsibility and solve the problem, and should resign immediately.

At the same time, the Biden administration has also been sharply criticized by the Democratic Party due to incidents such as the deportation of Haitian immigrants.

Recent earthquakes, unrest and extreme poverty in Haiti have led tens of thousands of Haitians to gather last month under a bridge over the U.S.-Mexico River to seek asylum in the United States. The Biden administration used border prevention regulations as a pretext for expelling a large number of Haitian refugees and refusing asylum applications. U.S. law enforcement officers ride horses and whip to deport immigrants. Some netizens commented that this is reminiscent of the scene of white people abusing black people during slavery.

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi criticized the U.S. for expulsing refugees without assessing and screening their asylum needs, not conforming to international norms and potentially violating international law.

In the face of accusations from all sides, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered an investigation.

In addition, the Biden administration is poised to resume its "stay in Mexico" policy in November. The policy, introduced by the Trump administration, has been controversial. The Biden administration announced its termination in June, but the Supreme Court ruled in August to reinstate the policy.

The "Stay in Mexico" policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Agreement, came into effect in January 2019 and requires migrants from Central America seeking asylum to stay in Mexican border cities pending the consideration of asylum applications in U.S. courts. In the following two years, nearly 70,000 migrants remained in Mexico and faced threats such as kidnapping and sexual assault. According to Xinhua News Agency