Illegal Immigrant Border Encounters Soars To Over 2 Million For First Time Ever

Border officials encountered more than 203,000 migrants attempting to illegally cross the southern border in August, bringing the annual total to more than 2 million for the first time ever, according to new data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). “It’s official. For the first time, migrant encounters at the border have surpassed two million in one year,” Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin wrote on Twitter. “CBP reports there were 203,598 migrant encounters at the border in August, bringing the total for FY’22 to 2,150,370, and there is still one month left to go.” “A reminder, these numbers do NOT include known


