Illegal Border Crossings Near Two-Decade High, Mayorkas Says
Post by Nick Potter. Colgate Class of 2022. Source: Hackman, M. (2021, March 17). “Illegal Border Crossings Near Two-Decade High, Mayorkas Says.” Wall Street Journal. Through the first few months of 2021, the United States in on pace to see the largest number of illegal immigrants crossing its southern border in 20 plus years, according to homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Several factors are contributing to the massive uptick in illegal immigration: first, the Biden administration’s undoing of Trump’s anti-immigration…