Southern border still a mess: Arizona sees 58,000 in one month as October sees second-highest border encounters ever
Posted on AllSides November 27th, 2023
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The United States-Mexico border continued its spiral into lawlessness in the last month, with border encounters still reaching astronomical numbers unseen until President Biden took office.
In Arizona specifically, the Tucson Sector Border Patrol apprehended 58,000 illegal immigrants in a span of 28 days. Numbers continued to pile on to what was an unfortunately busy October 2023 for the region, which saw 55,224 migrants, according to Breitbart.
Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin posted numerous figures on X, compiling data from just one week in his border sector.
"Week in Review," the chief...