Illegal Immigrant Apprehensions Continue to Surge as Supreme Court Weighs Fate of Title 42

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% :Sinema also encouraged Biden to visit the southern border.
61% : As Republicans prepare to take over the House in January, many elected officials in the party have promised that illegal immigration will be a significant focus in 2023.
52% : "Apprehensions at the southern border started to escalate in early 2021 after Biden took office.
51% : Even if their arrival is illegal, migrants who cross the border onto U.S. soil can request asylum, which provides humanitarian protection.
50% : On Dec. 23, data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection showed that, in November, the agency recorded 233,740 migrant encounters across the southern border that stretches almost 2,000 miles.
49% : In October, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2021 decision that permitted DACA to only go forward for current DACA recipients, known as Dreamers, and not new applicants.
43% : Migrants processed under the policy are not permitted to request asylum in the United States and are removed from the country.
40% : Almost 2.4 million illegal immigrants were stopped by U.S. agents along the southern border in fiscal year 2022, which ended on Sept. 30.
40% : Illegal immigrants are typically allowed to remain in the United States if they claim asylum, even though most asylum claims are eventually rejected.
40% : Cuellar, whose district covers around 200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, believes that Title 42 is the only measure preventing a tsunami of illegal crossings at the southern border.
35% : It has mostly been used along the southern border to remove illegal immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador from the United States.
27% :Established in 2012 by President Barack Obama, DACA prevented deportation for millions of immigrants who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children.

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