Over 164,000 migrants were encountered trying to illegally cross the southern border in October 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The 164,303 encounters are the highest October total on record, and amount to almost as much as October 2021, 2020, and 2019 combined. During fiscal year 2021, which began in October 2020 and
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